Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with! - eviltoast
An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem
  • BB_C@programming.dev
    211·
    4 months ago

    While pure Python code should work unchanged, code written in other languages or using the CPython C API may not. The GIL was implicitly protecting a lot of thread-unsafe C, C++, Cython, Fortran, etc. code - and now it no longer does. Which may lead to all sorts of fun outcomes (crashes, intermittent incorrect behavior, etc.).

    :tabclose

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      4 months ago

      those libraries include pretty much almost all popular libraries. It’s just impossible to write performant code in python.