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Quoting my comment from elsewhere: >I didn't dive deep on this, but I assume that GIL mode can still run anything, including no-GIL code (it is one of their pr
by n2d4 3y ago
Quoting my comment from elsewhere:
>I didn't dive deep on this, but I assume that GIL mode can still run anything, including no-GIL code (it is one of their promises, at least). So, unlike 2->3, there is forwards-compatibility.
>It also seems like the latter isn't meant as a replacement (for the moment), but rather as an option.
As long as GIL mode remains compatible with both old and new code, I see very little danger in having a no-GIL mode (besides hogging CPython maintainers' time).
- travisjungroth 3y agoI under-appreciated the forward comparability. So this partly a framing critique. If you’re going to frame it as “how this won’t be like before”, good to really highlight the how.