Progress on the Gilectomy

At the 2016 Python Language Summit, Larry Hastings introduced Gilectomy, his project to remove the global interpreter lock (GIL) from CPython. The GIL serializes access to the Python interpreter, so it severely limits the performance of multi-threaded Python programs. At the 2017 summit, Hastings was back to update attendees on the progress he has made and where Gilectomy is headed.

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