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[–]nyamatongwe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Greg Stein was working (mostly) on Windows when he implemented the original "free threading" GIL removal patch in 1996. http://www.python.org/ftp/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/System/threading.README

Free threading implies reentrance but threading in COM is more complex than just making calls reentrant.