[Python-Dev] Variant of removing GIL. (original) (raw)
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Martin> However, this is really hard to do correctly - if it were
Martin> simple, it would have been done long ago.I don't believe difficulty is the only (or primary) barrier. I think someone would have tackled it since Greg Stein did back in 1.4(?) or his free-threading changes would have been incorporated into the core had they yielded speedups on multiprocessors and not hurt performance on uniprocessors.
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