alt Hacker NewsIt'd be nice if Python std lib had more thread safe primitives/structures (compared to something like Java where there's tons of thread safe data structures)
Imo the GIL was used as an excuse for a long time to avoid building those out.
It'd be nice if Python std lib had more thread safe primitives/structures (compared to something like Java where there's tons of thread safe data structures)
Imo the GIL was used as an excuse for a long time to avoid building those out.
> It'd be nice if Python std lib had more thread safe primitives/structures (compared to something like Java where there's tons of thread safe data structures)
Hence why basic Python structures under free-threaded Python are all thread-safe structures, and explains why they are slower than GIL-variant.