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The fact that almost everything in Python is mutable by default pretty much guarantees the GIL is never going away.
by yen223 9y ago
The fact that almost everything in Python is mutable by default pretty much guarantees the GIL is never going away.
- pjmlp 9y agoThat doesn't affect other languages with similar semantics. Not even alternative Python implementations for that matter.
- yen223 9y agoWhich other language shares Python's level of dynamism - where object attributes can be conditionally deleted at runtime, for example - and manages to have convenient thread-safe operations?
- pjmlp 9y agoCommon Lisp, Smalltalk, Dylan. And as I said, Jython and IronPython also don't have a GIL.