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0 pointsteaearlgraycold1y ago0 comments

It's kept behind a flag. Hopefully will be forever.

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The article states the goal is to eventually (after some years of working out the major kinks and performance regressions) promote Free-Threaded Python to be the default cPython distribution.

stavros1y ago

Oh, very interesting, that's a great solution then.

geekone1y ago

Looks like according to the PEP it may eventually be default in 4-6 releases down the road: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#python-build-modes

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metadat1y ago

The article states the goal is to eventually (after some years of working out the major kinks and performance regressions) promote Free-Threaded Python to be the default cPython distribution.

stavros1y ago

Oh, very interesting, that's a great solution then.

geekone1y ago

Looks like according to the PEP it may eventually be default in 4-6 releases down the road: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#python-build-modes

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