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Oh, that's a big deal, yes. (For those unaware, GIL = global interpreter lock.)



I don’t think it’s a big deal if it’s not backwards compatible with the billions of lines of existing Python which use C extensions.


It's most likely that the GIL will be removed in the next 5 years: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzf...




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