On 25 July 2016 at 17:21, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The GIL is an implementation detail and has nothing to do with the
> language.  It could (in principle) be removed at any time without
> breaking existing code, and does not exist in other implementations.


Fair enough. At the same time though I do believe that the existence of the
GIL in the most widespread Python implementation has effectively dragged
back the language as a whole in terms of parallel programming.

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