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GIL section of the FAQ is outdated (or shortly to be outdated) #114756

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da-woods opened this issue Jan 30, 2024 · 3 comments
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GIL section of the FAQ is outdated (or shortly to be outdated) #114756

da-woods opened this issue Jan 30, 2024 · 3 comments
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da-woods commented Jan 30, 2024 •
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https://docs.python.org/3.13/faq/library.html#can-t-we-get-rid-of-the-global-interpreter-lock (link is to the current alpha version)

Obviously work is in progress to remove the GIL which isn't reflected in the FAQ yet.

Also the second option:

It has been suggested that the GIL should be a per-interpreter-state lock rather than truly global; interpreters then wouldn’t be able to share objects. Unfortunately, this isn’t likely to happen either.

If I understand correctly, interpreters with an isolated GIL are now at least partially implemented in a release version and again this isn't reflected in the FAQ.

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Possibly also should be tagged topic-subinterpreters (I don't think I have the permissions to do so myself)

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gh-114756: Update FAQ section on removing the GIL (#114957)
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Update FAQ section on removing the GIL to reflect recent progress on PEP 703 and PEP 684.

Co-authored-by: AN Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>
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willingc commented Feb 6, 2024

@da-woods Did merging #114957 resolve this issue?

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da-woods commented Feb 6, 2024

Yes, I think so. I'll close this.

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fsc-eriker pushed a commit to fsc-eriker/cpython that referenced this issue Feb 14, 2024
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pythongh-114756: Update FAQ section on removing the GIL (python#114957)
27b74e2 
Update FAQ section on removing the GIL to reflect recent progress on PEP 703 and PEP 684.

Co-authored-by: AN Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>
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