The Python Steering Council intends to adopt a proposal to drop the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) that “restricts a Python user program to using only a single thread,” reports Joab Jackson. “This restriction has become a serious performance impediment for running Python code across multicore CPUs.”
Implementation of this change, outlined in PEP-703, will be carried out over a period of years, Jackson explains. “First, there will be an experimental build without the lock. Over time, support will be added for the GIL-less Python. In the final stage, the GIL-less Python will be default, with any vestiges of the GIL stripped away.”
Read more at The New Stack.
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