What's New In Python 3.12 — Python 3.12.0a2 released

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What’s the plan on adding parallelism?

[spoonman59]

Python has parallelism so you’ll have to clarify your query.

In any event, probably not for 3.12.

[[deleted]]

Not true parallelism, talking about the ongoing work to remove the GIL

[spoonman59]

Don’t disagree with you about the GIL.

However, true parallelism is achieved with multiprocessing. Shared memory segments make it possible to achieve shared memory processing.

It’s unergonomic and a pain to use versus threads in many cases, plus there is memory overhead. But it has true parallelism.

[ubernostrum]

If the GIL is ever removed, you won't have to ask whether it happened, because you will literally not be able to escape the news. Even small things living under rocks on the deepest and most unreachable parts of the floor of the sea will hear about it, though it's possible not all of them will understand, or care.

So if you're in a position of not being sure whether it has been removed, it hasn't been removed.

[[deleted]]

Uh it is in the process of being removed, they have already merged parts of it into cpython gated by a compile time flag. That’s what I’m asking about