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ellis0ntoday at 5:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

That reminded me of how back in 2008 I removed the GIL from Python to run thousands Python modules in 10,000 threads. We were fighting for every clock cycle and byte and it worked. It took 20 years for the GIL to be removed and become available to the public.


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qzzitoday at 6:56 PM

Simply removing the GIL and running 10,000 threads seems very unlikely.

heavyset_gotoday at 5:11 PM

What was the use case?

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