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March 12, 2024, 5:40 a.m. |

Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net

gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL with PYTHON_GIL=0 or -X gil=0


Merged into python:main 14 hours ago. Looks like the first phase of Sam Gross's phenomenal effort to provide a GIL free Python (here via an explicit opt-in) will ship in Python 3.13.

free gil python python 3 sam ship via will

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