Removing GIL will break ecosystem in worse way than Python 2->3 ever did, as both interpreter and compiled libraries rely on it for thread safety. There are ot

Removing GIL will break ecosystem in worse way than Python 2->3 ever did, as both interpreter and compiled libraries rely on it for thread safety. There are other paths for improving performance that Python is embrancing: asyncio provides considerable performance gains to IO bound apps, and memory-sharing between processes allows for relatively cheap sidestep for those who find threads too slow for their use-case.