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Hugo van Kemenade

Big Python news! 🐍📰

"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."

For the general plan, see:

discuss.python.org/t/a-steerin

Discussions on Python.org · A Steering Council notice about PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython)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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Hugo 雨果

@hugovk very interesting approach. Curious to hear more discussion around it.

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Hugo van Kemenade

@whynothugo Here's part 1 of the discussion discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-m

And part 2 discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-m

Discussions on Python.org · PEP 703: Making the Global Interpreter Lock OptionalHi 👋 As the sponsor of @colesbury’s PEP, I’d like to invite you all to discuss the proposal to solve the biggest scalability limitation of CPython by making it possible to build a version of the interpreter which doesn’t use the Global Interpreter Lock. The document is somewhat of a demanding read as it’s one of the top 10 longest PEPs. That was to be expected though as the problem goes back decades and requires nuance, trade-offs, and careful consideration of alternatives. Thanks in adva...
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