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r4victor on Sept 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading

As far as I understand, Ruby's Ractors are what Python is now trying to do with subinterpreters (https://lwn.net/Articles/820424/). I mention them in the post.

danachow on Sept 29, 2021 [–]

I just skimmed through your link. Subinterpreters have been in the C api for a long time and never got around the GIL, and reading over the post that you linked — nothing has really changed.

r4victor on Sept 29, 2021 | [–]

This is a WIP. Here's how it's going on: https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/subinterpreters.html

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