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multi-core-python
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ericsnowcurrently / multi-core-python

multi-core-python

Enabling CPython multi-core parallelism via subinterpreters.

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248GitHub stars
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Enabling CPython multi-core parallelism via subinterpreters.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-17 21:50:11 UTC to 2022-05-18 12:40:43 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Because the GIL is only a problem in specific sets of problems that the majority of python users won't run into. With the addition of asyncio etc, the negative of GIL is usually pretty restricted to CPU-heavy, blocking services which the core team decided was a very small subset of users. So removing the GIL would require an extremely heavy rewrite of the way python works at a fundamental basis, and it would break a lot of the "promises" that python affords in regards to memory management and safety. As an aside, there is currently a PEP that will allow for better concurrency __without__ removing the GIL, [PEP554](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/) and a larger project overall for multi-core support, which is (hopefully) being included in 3.9 [Multi-core](https://github.com/ericsnowcurrently/multi-core-python)
In Python adopts a 12-month release cycle

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