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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Python Core Development - Is There a Future to Remove the Global Interpreter Lock?

There are a couple of possible futures there the most likely future is that we'll get multiple sub interpreters which each run a completely independent python program nice uh. There's still some benefit of of sort of faster communication between those programs but it's also managing for you this running of multiple python programs. i'm personally not convinced that there are enough people needing the speed of multiple threads with their python programs that it's worth to take that performance hit and that complexity hit.

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