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1. amelius · 1789901223 · focus · HN ↗

   Still hoping for a company to agentically port the python ecosystem to GIL-free python.

   1. andrewstuart · 1789901350 · focus · HN ↗

      I did a lot of benchmarking of Gil free python.

      Greenlets were much faster.

      Gil free python gets stuck on all sorts of python locks. It’s slow.

   2. rienbdj · 1789902635 · focus · HN ↗

      If runtime performance is the goal it’s easier to port the required libraries to another language at this point.

      1. amelius · 1789911031 · focus · HN ↗

         I'd certainly like to see more of this, yes. It would be great if scipy, numpy, pytorch, etc. would be available universally, if only because you'd use the same function names in every language.

         And if LLMs are as great as they make us believe they are, then this should be easily possible.

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