PEP 703: Making the Python global interpreter lock optional
In late 2021, LWN covered a plan to
eliminate the Python global interpreter lock (GIL), thus improving the
language’s thread-level concurrency. This plan has now been codified as PEP 703, which includes
an extensive discussion of the changes that would be made.

The global interpreter lock will remain the default for CPython
builds and python.org downloads. A new build configuration flag,
–witho … ⌘ Read more