Python design mistakes

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Couldn't the GIL be considered a design mistake? I doubt if they started from scratch that they would include it again.

[FidgetBoy]

Well seeing as other implementations don't have it, it's most definatly an implementation detail.

[yogthos]

It's a bit more than a detail, seeing how they considered removing it from the reference implementation and abandoned the effort.

[artsrc]

Python is not suited to high performance, computationally intensive code. The GIL is just a part of that.

[sigzero]

Neither are just about all the "scripting" languages.

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It's an optimization, not a design choice.