[Python-ideas] Re: Python GIL Thoughts

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 06:38:22PM -0400, Edwin Zimmerman wrote:

No, there isn't a separate GIL for each sub-interpreter.  That would be a great feature in my mind, but it isn't there.

I believe that it is a long-term goal to eventually move to a separate GIL for each subinterpreter: https://bugs.python.org/issue24554#msg246162 but that should be considered a very long-term goal, not part of PEP 554: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/#id18 -- Steven