https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9bc6045842ebc91ec48ab163a9e1e8644231607c
commit: 9bc6045842ebc91ec48ab163a9e1e8644231607c
branch: main
author: Sam Gross <[email protected]>
committer: colesbury <[email protected]>
date: 2024-05-31T13:23:29-04:00
summary:
doc: Add glossary entry for "free threading" (#119865)
files:
M Doc/glossary.rst
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 1e5bafce861e52..ae9949bc2867c4 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -438,6 +438,12 @@ Glossary
division. Note that ``(-11) // 4`` is ``-3`` because that is ``-2.75``
rounded *downward*. See :pep:`238`.
+ free threading
+ A threading model where multiple threads can run Python bytecode
+ simultaneously within the same interpreter. This is in contrast to
+ the :term:`global interpreter lock` which allows only one thread to
+ execute Python bytecode at a time. See :pep:`703`.
+
function
A series of statements which returns some value to a caller. It can also
be passed zero or more :term:`arguments <argument>` which may be used in
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