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		coldtea on May 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL That's just a 2x speed increase. More than 5x can be achieved with the GIL included (and has been promised, by the new Microsoft Python-speed-up initiative and that Python dev who made a similar proposal).

ivoflipse on May 12, 2022 [–]

That Python dev (Mark Shannon) is part of the Microsoft team :-)

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