Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed

• nogil

  31 2,854 5.7 Python

  Multithreaded Python without the GIL

Cython does not need to be rewritten to use the "nogil" Python. Extensions that use Cython will need to be recompiled (just like they do between Python releases), but generally require few, if any, changes. For example, I haven't need to change SciPy so far, and NumPy only requires ~4 lines of changes.

The project is still in an early stage, so I expect there to be bugs and issues. Please let me know what problems you run into by filing an issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/colesbury/nogil/issues

• rayon

  67 10,299 9.0 Rust

  Rayon: A data parallelism library for Rust

  

I'm looking forward to something like the brilliant rayon parallel operations library https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon

We won't get data race free guarantees but if built into pandas or Vaex we can have a near transparent API.

It'll really open things up for those apps running on 32 core machines. They're out there, I deploy these things frequently (Plotly Dash framework for large Enterprise customers).

• InfluxDB

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• PHPT

  276 37,353 10.0 C

  The PHP Interpreter

  

PHP doesn’t ship with an API for creating threads, but PHP can be executed in threads depending on setup. And it does that without using a GIL, instead it internally uses something called Thread-Safe Resource Manager

https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/TSRM

I have written about this recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692014

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