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I have to agree here, despite the two of us rating the importance of the GIL problem quite differently in yesterday's discussion: A better strategy against the
by sho_hn 14y ago
I have to agree here, despite the two of us rating the importance of the GIL problem quite differently in yesterday's discussion: A better strategy against the GIL FUD is plain old education, not trying to make it a taboo topic. Especially programmers who do know what they're doing won't take too kindly to a community where that becomes prevalent.
- hynek 14y agoI find Nick arguing pretty much to the point and the quote above was ripped from it’s context which is a huge section balancing the arguments against each other. tldr He argues there are better ways for scaling out than threads and removing the GIL would have enormous consequence _throughout_ the whole code base so it’s removal cannot be warranted. Reducing 10 paragraphs and 11 bullet points to “only stupid people use threads” is just poor style.