All they had to do was require stamped icons on the ends of the plugs in the spec, and instead we have the current cable mystery clusterfuck 🤦
But with multiprocessing you're paying extra cycles to serialize and deserialize with those data structures (plus the added cost of storing copies in multiple places), and processes are much heavier to spin up...
Free threaded Python is here with 3.13 beta!
Editor, Thomas Wouters,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.13, compared to 3.12. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release Highlights: Python 3.13 beta is the pre-rele...
Python will get true threading support with the removal of the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) in 3.13 (now available in the beta as an experimental option).
The GIL has long crippled Python's threading capabilities, but will be getting true parallelism with the implementation of PEP 703.
What are you gonna do with real threads? 🤔