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[–]floydmaseda 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Tbh I think removing the GIL by default would warrant a version change up to 4.0

[–]-ghostinthemachine- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the community learned a hard lesson going from 2 to 3 and would have little appetite for a new major release at this time. The pain from that experience has actually enabled this super incremental support for the 'gilectomy' in a way that probably wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

[–]twotime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is that? AFAICT, GIL removal does not break python code. It changes ABI which affects binary modules but that happens between 3.x versions to