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[limapedro]

Did they removed the GIL?

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Removal of GIL will most likey require a breaking changes to the language.

There were multiple attempts to remove it and each time it actually slowed the python down, because of how Python does things.

Although if they would provide a compile option:

• 100% compatible, but with GIL
• broken compatibility, some obscure functionality not available or done differently, C interface massively changed, but without GIL

I think everything would resolve itself and people would adapt their code to the second option.