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		gcbirzan on July 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engi... In general, until you do use threads, removing the GIL is a performance loss. Even if you do use threads, you have an overhead: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#performance

packetlost on July 10, 2023 [–]

Oh, that makes sense! I forgot that there would be overhead related to the changes for no GIL.

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