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CPython PR merged yesterday: Allow disabling the GIL with PYTHON_GIL=0 or -X gil=0 by swtaarrs · Pull Request #116338 (part of PEP 703) (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13079957

https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago

Note the caveat:

With PYTHON_GIL=0 set, I spot-checked a few tests and small programs that don't use threads. They all seem to run fine, and very basic threaded programs work, sometimes. Trying to run the full test suite crashes pretty quickly, in test_asyncio

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