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		amrx101 on July 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler... I dont really partake in programming "wars", but the idea of launching a set of separate processes instead of separate threads to do a bunch of IOs has always seem to be weird to me. Yes, I have built software using Python. Yes, I have done things as you suggest. Now I use asyncio, since the syntax has matured and I finally understand coroutines, runners, tasks etc. Lets see where the GIL less Python takes us.

da39a3ee on July 31, 2023 [–]

I'm confused. If you're doing a "bunch of IOs" then that's the situation where people use threads in Python, not processes. The argument for processes in Python is CPU-bound workloads.

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