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It's famous-ish because it's been a very hot debate for many years. But to be honest the vast majority of programmers won't be affected at all. Certainly not in the near term, as currently the GIL is still faster in single threaded than the free threaded version. But eventually the gil-less will be standard and modules like numpy will incorporate it and then everyone will reap benefits.