Paul Rubin wrote [concerning GIL removal]:
It's weird that Python's designers were willing to mess up the user language in the 2-to-3 transition but felt that the C API had to be kept sarcosanct. Huge opportunities were blown at multiple levels.
You say that as though we had a solution for GIL removal all thought out and ready to go, and the only thing that stopped us is that it would have required changing the C API. But it's not like that at all. As far as I know, all the attempts that have been made so far to remove the GIL have led to performance that was less than satisfactory. It's a hard problem that we haven't found a good solution to yet. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
