On 7/1/2012 1:53 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote: > As far as I can tell, there are no concrete plans to integrate > concurrency better, or get rid of the GIL, at the moment. To quote > http://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock >> """Getting rid of the GIL is an occasional topic on the python-dev > mailing list. No one has managed it yet.""" There's also this, recently written by one of CPython's core devs: http://python-notes.boredomandlaziness.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html#but-but-surely-fixing-the-gil-is-more-important-than-fixing-unicode -- CPython 3.3.0a4 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17803