Python Ditches GIL for AGI

AGI is coming, and it will be built with Python – and this time it’s for real. A few days ago, the Python team officially announced that it removed GIL (aka Global Interpreter Lock). Thanks to this new update, experts now believe AGI is closer than ever, free from thread contention.

When Python was first publicly released in 1991, it didn’t support threads or have a global interpreter lock. The support for threads was added about a year later in 1992 together with the GIL. During that time, a number of operating systems added better support for threading and computers began rolling out with multiple processors.