On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Francesco Biscani <bluesca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 July 2016 at 17:21, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The GIL is an implementation detail and has nothing to do with the >> language. It could (in principle) be removed at any time without >> breaking existing code, and does not exist in other implementations. > > > Fair enough. At the same time though I do believe that the existence of the > GIL in the most widespread Python implementation has effectively dragged > back the language as a whole in terms of parallel programming.
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