2y ago

If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython

A fast, free threading Python

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Hey a positive thing about Meta. Cool.
Nogil has great potential to make Python closer to first class for parallel processing. Having man power gives the SC more reason to push forward.
- Meta the company and its profitability goals suck. However in pursuit of those goals I find their OSS contributions and project management to be pretty good.
- Their work on Btrfs is also much appreciated.
And whether PEP 703 is accepted will probably depend quite a lot on the result of this poll: https://discuss.python.org/t/poll-feedback-to-the-sc-on-making-cpython-free-threaded-and-pep-703/28540
For those wondering what PEP 703 is:
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (--disable-gil) to CPython to let it run Python code without the global interpreter lock and with the necessary changes needed to make the interpreter thread-safe.