On 8 Oct 2021, at 10:13, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Hi Sam,
On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:52:56PM -0400, Sam Gross wrote:
I've been working on changes to CPython to allow it to run without the global interpreter lock. I'd like to share a working proof-of-concept that can run without the GIL.
Getting Python to run without the GIL has never been a major problem for CPython (and of course some other Python interpreters don't have a GIL at all).
On the first page of Sam's design overview he references Gilectomy by name.
Single threaded code is still, and always will be, an important part of Python's ecosystem. A lot of people would be annoyed if the cost of speeding up heavily threaded Python by a small percentage would be to slow down single-threaded Python by a large percentage.
Quoting that same design document, Sam writes: "The new interpreter (together with the GIL changes) is about 10% faster than CPython 3.9 on the single-threaded pyperformance benchmarks." - Ł