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		BiteCode_dev on July 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engi... Well, CPython is 4 years older than Java. That's very old. When it came out, this was in store: https://img.redbull.com/images/w_3000/q_auto,f_auto/redbullc... What was not in store were: - multi-core CPU - wide spread internet access So people solve concurrency with a simple but efficient and sufficient method at the time: the GIL. And nobody planned for the scientific and ML stack.

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