The GIL can now be disabled in Python's main branch

• CPython

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  The Python programming language

  

• mypy

  112 17,541 9.7 Python

  Optional static typing for Python

  

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• hn-search

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Further context on noGIL in general: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

• taichi

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  Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python.

  

ETH Zurich is using it for their physics sim courses, University of Utah is using it for simulations (SIGGRAPH 2022), OPPO (they make smart devices running Android), Kuaishou uses it for liquid and gas simulation on GPUs. Lots of GPU accelerated sim stuff.

https://www.taichi-lang.org/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337118128_Taichi_a_...

https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi

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• malebolgia

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• nogil-3.12

  3 142 6.9 Python

  Multithreaded Python without the GIL (experimental rebase on 3.12)

Those links are both fairly old. See PEP 703 [0] and Sam’s nogil-3.12 repo [1] for more current versions.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

[1] https://github.com/colesbury/nogil-3.12

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• schedule

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  Python job scheduling for humans.

Thank you for your insight!

I asked about it to the dev if you're interested, by the way. No replies yet though, since the lib isn't very active to begin with.

https://github.com/dbader/schedule/issues/614

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