kevin, 23 days ago

You know a talk is good when it ends with a list of terms and conditions.

kevin, 23 days ago

Terms and conditions shown at the end of the talk.

1. Specializations are not enabled in free-threading (yet)
2. GitHub Actions does not have a free-threaded build
3. Packaging does not detect the ABI for free-threading correctly
4. Some benchmarks are slower with free-threading.
5. The datetime module is not thread safe
6. C extensions need to support multi-phase-init to be supported with sub interpreters
7. Most of your 3rd party C extensions aren't supported yet
8. Cython is not supported

kevin, 23 days ago

9. Django does not work in sub interpreters because of (5)
10. Did I mention the datetime module is not thread safe
11. Most PyPI C extensions are not thread safe
12. Orjson, pydantic-core, httptools, and uvloop don't compile
13. Nothing using PY03 compiles

carlton, 23 days ago

@kevin sounds like a long way to go until it’s usable 🤔