The Python Language Summit 2023: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional

If there’s one blog that really “took off” after I wrote last year’s coverage on the Python Language Summit, it was my blog on Sam Gross’s proposal to make Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (the “GIL”) optional. One week following the publication of my art… Read more

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