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GIL is not part of the language design, it's just a detail of the most common implementation - CPython.

• b33j0r 1y ago
  Fair and accurate. But that’s pretty much what people use, right? I am happy to hear stories of using pypy or something to radically improve an architecture. I don’t have any from personal experience. I guess twisted and stackless, a long time ago.
  • miohtama 1y ago
    The GIL is optional in new Python versions. Downsides are legacy library compatibility and degraded single thread performance.
    • b33j0r 1y ago
      I mentioned subinterpreters. That’s the thing that “makes the GIL optional,” you still have to use subinterpreters. Is this no longer true?
      • miohtama 1y ago
        It is no longer true. You can have free threading.