I wonder how nasty it would be to do a new implementation of Python in C/C++. Maybe one that doesn't have the GIL, has a proper exact GC, and emits LLVM or some

I wonder how nasty it would be to do a new implementation of Python in C/C++. Maybe one that doesn't have the GIL, has a proper exact GC, and emits LLVM or something. PyPy seems to be addressing some of these issues. I wonder what the GIL is actually being used for... I don't see why the interpreter needs so much damn locking.