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Obviously?

But the point is currently they do work, they are thread-safe and they are correct in the strictest sense of the word, per-FAQ: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/library.html#what-kinds-of-glo...

So as the original commenter notes:

> wouldn't removing the GIL cause all sorts of sudden race conditions and regressions in existing python code?




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