[Python-Dev] [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:29:24 +0100
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> the introduction of 
> free-threading in Python has not been hampered by lack of 
> synchronization primitives but by the difficulty of changing the 
> interpreter without unduly impacting single threaded code.

Exactly what I think too.

cheers

Antoine.