GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

Posted Aug 3, 2023 9:07 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: GIL removal and the Faster CPython project by roc
Parent article: GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

>I can't think of any similar language interpreter that supports free-threading like this.

There already are Python interpreters without a GIL, like Jython and pypy-stm.

GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

Posted Aug 3, 2023 9:35 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks, good to know.

They're not exactly mainstream though.

GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

Posted Aug 18, 2023 12:54 UTC (Fri) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

"Not exactly mainstream" is a little generous, to be honest, Jython hasn't yet got support for Python 3 and pypy-stm was abandoned as essentially unworkable several years back...

It's a shame, though - STM in particular was a pretty cool *concept*, even if making it work kinda wants hypothetical hardware support :-P