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PEP 703 is going to be accepted, are you ready for noGIL? (discuss.python.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta is dedicating 3 engineers to get the nogil patches into cpython. There are some other companies stepping up as well. This is huge this is the closest we have ever been to solving the issue of the GIL.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a filthy casual, could anyone give me a link or brief summary as to why the GIL should/shouldn’t go away?

[–] Dogeek 2 points 2 years ago

The GIL is a thread lock. It prevents threads from accessing the same memory space, eliminating race conditions and more importantly, keeping the reference counters correct so that the python garbage collector can correctly free memory (avoiding leaks)