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 [$] Python subinterpreters and free-threading

At
https://us.pycon.org/2024/
 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Anthony Shaw looked at the various kinds of parallelism
available to Python programs.  There have been two major developments on
the parallel-execution front over the last few years, with the effort to
provide https://lwn.net/Articles/820424/
, each with its own
global interpreter lock (GIL), along with the work to https://lwn.net/Articles/940780/
.  In the talk, he
explored the two approaches to try to give attendees a sense of how to make
the right choice for their applications.

https://lwn.net/Articles/985041/