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Tue Sep 11 15:18:36 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-September/074550.html

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007, Justin Tulloss wrote:
>
> I had a whole long email about exactly what I was doing, but I think
> I'll get to the point instead. I'm trying to implement a python
> concurrency API and would like to use cpython to do it. To do that, I
> would like to remove the GIL.

You should review the work Greg Stein did to remove the GIL in 1.5.2;
although the interpreter core has changed considerably since then, I
believe the basic principles of the GIL are the same.  
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[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)