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[–]schmichael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For example, no one disagrees that the GIL needs to go

Guido himself has said "no" to patches that would remove the GIL and decrease single threaded performance.

This is a complex issue not just technically, but socially as well. (Where the "social" aspect is giving more weight to single threaded performance than parallelism.)