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Is the new GIL in Python 3.2 sufficient to make the switch?

I was reading this page on the new GIL found/to be found in Python 3.2 and I was wondering if it is the "killer feature" that will trigger a transition from Python 2.x to 3.x.

What do you guys think?

Solution

  • It's still a GIL. Python implementations without any GIL at all have been available for over a decade now. Python implementations that are much faster than CPython have been available for years.

    (Almost) noone uses them, which clearly shows that nobody cares about performance or the GIL, so I hardly see them being a "killer feature". Killer features are something that people actually want.