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		T-A on July 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engi... From the top post in that thread: Most of this work has been on Javascript, which is single-threaded and less mutable than Python, but PyPy has also made some significant contributions. PyPy has a GIL. There is also work on Ruby. Ruby is even more mutable than Python, but also has a GIL. Work on Ruby mirrors that on Javascript.

dragonwriter on July 8, 2023 [–]

Ruby's GVL is no longer truly global because of Ractors, which are a different approach to reducing the impact of a global lock.

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