Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: Yeah, the original reasoning was that threads were something esoteric and not used by most code, and at the time we definitely felt that always using the GIL would cause a (tiny) slowdown and increase the risk of crashes due to bugs in the GIL code. I'd be happy to learn that we no longer need to worry about this and can just always initialize it.
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