8 stories tagged gil, newest first.
362 points by chmaynard | 185 comments
A blog post explaining the changes in Python 3.13, focusing on the experimental JIT compiler and the optional removal of the Global Interpreter Lock.
500 points by ngoldbaum | 342 comments
Quansight Labs blog post announcing that free-threaded (no-GIL) CPython builds are ready for experimentation and describing ecosystem rollout progress.
427 points by freediver | 212 comments
Merged CPython pull request allowing the GIL to be disabled in free-threaded builds via PYTHON_GIL=0 or -X gil=0.
334 points by belter | 206 comments
LWN article by Jake Edge on progress toward making CPython's global interpreter lock optional under PEP 703, covering ABI concerns and naming of the no-GIL build.
364 points by BiteCode_dev | 255 comments
Bite code! newsletter roundup of July 2023 Python news: GIL removal, the LPython compiler, Pydantic 2, and soft deprecation of getopt and optparse.
331 points by mappu | 174 comments
LWN brief reporting that the Python Steering Council intends to accept PEP 703, making the GIL optional in CPython, possibly starting with 3.13.
425 points by pablogsal | 50 comments
Python Steering Council post on discuss.python.org announcing intent to accept PEP 703 to make the GIL optional in CPython, with acceptance details.
580 points by bratao | 397 comments
A Python Discourse thread post on PEP 703 stating Meta would commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython if the proposal is accepted.