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quite a large set of users are using default python installation. There is large number of companies and non-trivial codebases that run on default python that c

by slt2021 3y ago

quite a large set of users are using default python installation. There is large number of companies and non-trivial codebases that run on default python that comes with the oldest LTS version of Linux distro. currently quite a lot of companies use python3.6 only because it comes standard with the Ubuntu 14.04.6 which happens to be the oldest LTS version - and companies have habit of migrating from out-of-support LTS version to currently-supported-oldest-LTS this can repeat 2->3 because there will be users stuck with older versions of python and library maintainers will have to maintain both versions: with GIL and without GIL (just like PHP extension developers did with thread safe methods)

vlz 3y ago
But shouldn't old GIL python versions be fine running code that is no-GIL compatible (assuming it is otherwise compatible)? Having a thread per process doesn't mean you cannot run code which is fine with having n threads per process. So if you maintain code which is otherwise compatible with e.g. python 3.6, after making it no-GIL compatible it should still be compatible to 3.6.