That might have been the original intention. The latest notice from the SC says: Our base assumptions are: * Long-term (probably 5+ years), the no-GIL build s

That might have been the original intention. The latest notice from the SC says: Our base assumptions are: * Long-term (probably 5+ years), the no-GIL build should be the only build. We do not want to create a permanent split between with-GIL and no-GIL builds (and extension modules). They repeat it later. It looks as if they really want to remove it. > have to deal with the bullshit of multiprocessing The problems multi-threading introduces outweigh that by far.