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May 31, 2023, 12:04 a.m. |

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


Extremely informative update covering Sam Gross's python-nogil proposal from this year's language summit at PyCon.

Sam has been working hard on his fork for the past year, and now has it rebased for Python 3.12. If his PEP is accepted it could end up as an optional compile-time build in time for Python 3.13.

"The plan for nogil remains that it would be enabled via a compile-time flag, named …

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