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		smitty1e on June 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's New in Python 3.11? I'm not deep on Node, but this sounds like a GIL thing.

heavyset_go on June 28, 2022 [–]

It is, and it's a subinterpreters thing. Node has separate interpreters that run in worker threads but also share memory, which is the route Python is planning on taking.

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