[HN Gopher] 500 Python Interpreters
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       500 Python Interpreters
        
       Author : SAHChandler
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-08-30 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (izzys.casa)
 (TXT) w3m dump (izzys.casa)
        
       | curious_cat_163 wrote:
       | > "No matter what happens there is going to be a lock occurring.
       | No two PyThreadStates can execute Python bytecode at the same
       | time. However, they can execute multiple C calls at the same time
       | which is why for long running pure C operations extension and
       | embedding developers are encouraged to release the GIL
       | temporarily."
       | 
       | Very exciting! I wonder what the first set of motivating
       | applications are and what kind of performance gains are they
       | expecting.
        
       | surfingdino wrote:
       | I'm lo0king forward to it, but debugging this stuff is going to
       | be another level of hard.
        
       | zahlman wrote:
       | You posted this 11 days ago and it's been posted by two other
       | people in the interim. (Why is this version of the post more
       | popular?)
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | Sometimes articles just don't get traction and then they're
         | invited to resubmit (by dang, the moderator). Since the
         | submitter submitted it twice, that was probably what happened
         | here.
         | 
         | As to why it's "more popular", I guess you mean is getting more
         | upvotes, that's part of the trick with submissions. Post it on
         | a slow Friday work day before a holiday and you'll get more
         | clicks than some other days or times.
        
         | SAHChandler wrote:
         | It was entered into the second chance pool[1]. Interim posts
         | were probably not as popular because I accidentally broke my
         | site's CSS briefly that wasn't obvious in the preview
         | deployments, but was present on the actual site. I only noticed
         | about an hour ago
         | 
         | [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
        
           | MarkusQ wrote:
           | CSS may still be broken. At least, I'm getting some really
           | obnoxious color combinations (magenta on salmon, etc.)
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | I was hoping for it to be an HTTP status code.
        
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