@travisfw @gramian Nearly there. GIL will likely go away in the release next year. There are lots of PEPs in discussion and work right now. This one, for example:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
There release coming in a few months will have per interpreter GIL:
https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#whatsnew312-pep684
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (--disable-gil) to...
Posting for the whole Steering Council, on the subject of @colesbury’s PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython). Thank you, everyone, for responding to the poll on the no-GIL proposal. It’s clear that the overall sentiment is positive, both for the general idea and for PEP 703 specifically. The Steering Council is also largely positive on both. We intend to accept PEP 703, although we’re still working on the acceptance details. As we’ve done a few times in the past, we ...
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