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Pypy is still single threaded. https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil...

This work is super exciting! Can pypy use the same recipe to offer true parallelism plus the jit??

Will be really interesting to see what pypy devs think of this work and how they might also lever it!

I think it can't use the same recipe. Sam's approach for CPython uses biased reference counting. Internally, Pypy uses a tracing garbage collector, not reference counting. I don't know how difficult it would be to make their GC thread-safe. Probably you don't want to "stop the world" on every GC pass so I guess changes are non-trivial.

Sam's changes to CPython's container objects (dicts, lists), to make them thread safe might also be hard to port directly to Pypy. Pypy implements those objects differently.

I think the biggest thing it will give is a need to go there. Until now, pypy has been able to not do parallelism. But if cpython is suddenly faster for a big class of program, pypy will have to bite the bullet to stay relevant?

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