[Python-Dev] Fwd: Removal of GIL through refcounting removal.

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hi,

Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes:
> If python were to have free threading, courtesy of a lack
> of the GIL, it would help those people quite a bit. Sometimes you just
> need shared state. Myself? I used multiprocess *and* threads all the
> time for various reasons.

I think it is important to remind that the GIL doesn't prevent (almost) true
multithreading. The only thing it prevents is full use of multi-CPU resources in
a single process. But if you are using threads to reduce latencies rather than
increase throughput, the GIL isn't really an obstacle (it probably makes things
a bit worse than a free-threading scenario, but not that much; and you can tweak
sys.setcheckinterval()).

Regards

Antoine.