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		lvass on Oct 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of s... If needed, I'll probably just change it to asyncio, probably saner than inspecting everything for new parallelism bugs which can be incredibly subtle.

ajkjk on Oct 17, 2021 [–]

If performance isn't hugely important you could make blanket-locking wrappers around common data structures and swap them in-place for all of your global state.

.. but, as I said, removing the GIL will almost certainly be opt-in.

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