Until now attempts to remove the GIL have come at the cost of reduced single threaded performance.
This is the first suggestion that doesn’t degrade single threaded performance.
This is the first suggestion that doesn’t degrade single threaded performance.
If "Python 3.11+faster-cpython" didn't also remove the GIL, then it didn't negate anything he's trying to acomplish. He wasn't going for a faster Cpython alone, but for a Cpython without GIL.
Why is that unfortunate? If his patch being slower than python 3.11 isn't acceptably fast despite being faster than every other python version before that then python was never acceptably fast to begin with.
Linux got rid of the BKL ages ago, that the Python community still holds onto the GIL as if it was some multi threading holy grail isn't even remotely funny anymore.