Threading in Python

[Martin von Loewis]

"Andy" <andy at mindgate.net> writes:

> There seems to be a lot of (arguably) radical changes
> going on in the Python syntax/grammar/language, perhaps
> the direction should be towards improving the internals
> first?

People have started to work on free threading, but this turned quickly
out to be quite a radical change to the internals, to a degree that
third-party code would easily break - in addition to introducing many
new bugs.

That said, a contribution to implement free threading without any
negative impacts on performance on single-processor machines, and on
portability across versions, would surely be appreciated and reviewed
by quite a number of Python contributors (including myself).

Regards,
Martin