https://github.com/colesbury/nogil

Multithreaded Python without the GIL
https://github.com/colesbury/nogil

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Multithreaded Python without the GIL

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/colesbury/nogil
• Owner: colesbury
• License: other
• Created: 2021-10-06T18:41:08.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: nogil
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-10T18:46:00.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-02T00:23:25.428Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 406 MB
• Stars: 2,905
• Watchers: 62
• Forks: 107
• Open Issues: 31
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
  • Security: .github/SECURITY.md

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# Python Multithreading without GIL

Copyright (c) 2001-2022 Python Software Foundation.  All rights reserved.

See [Doc/license.rst](/Doc/license.rst) for copyright and license information.

## Overview

This was a proof-of-concept implementation of CPython that supports multithreading without the global interpreter lock (GIL). An overview of the  design is described in the [Python Multithreading without GIL](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsDFosB5e6BfnXLlejd9l0/edit) Google doc.

Now that ["PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython"](https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/) has been accepted, this project is not being actively worked on. Development is focused on making Python 3.13 and later releases support running without the global interpreter lock in a configuration called "free-threading".

Please use the "free-threaded" build of Python 3.13. For installation instructions, see https://py-free-threading.github.io/installing_cpython/.