Sam Gross has been working on a branch that removes the GIL and has a few other performance improvements. More details are here on the python mailing list: http

Sam Gross has been working on a branch that removes the GIL and has a few other performance improvements. More details are here on the python mailing list: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/ABR2L6BENNA6UPSPKV474HCS4LWT26GY/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/... There's a link to his design overview document in the thread.