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The first year of free-threaded Python

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259 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 16 May 25 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
1. bgwalter ◴[16 May 25 12:11 UTC] No.44004461[source]▶
This is just an advertisement for the company. Fact is, free-threading is still up to 50% slower, the tail call interpreter isn't much faster at all, and free-threading is still flaky.

Things they won't tell you at PyCon.

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2. tomrod ◴[16 May 25 14:39 UTC] No.44006063[source]▶
QuantSight isn't a formal company though, it's a skunkworks/OSS research group run by the Travis Oliphant.
3. lenerdenator ◴[16 May 25 16:24 UTC] No.44007268[source]▶
I don't see how any of that's a problem given that it's not the default for how people run Python.

It's a big project that's going to take lots of time by lots of people to finish. Keep it behind opt-in, keep accepting pull requests after rigorous testing, and it's fine.