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Past Discussion

• (2012) Nick Coghlan blog: Volunteer developed free-threaded cross platform virtual machines?
• (2015) Eric Snow on python-ideas: solving multi-core Python
• (2016) Eric Snow blog: Solving Multi-Core Python
• (2017) Eric Snow on python-ideas: Exposing CPython's subinterpreter C-API in the stdlib.
• (2018) Eric Snow at language summit: Subinterpreter support for Python

Potentially Interested Parties

• parallel programming folks (incl. scientific, numerical)
  • Dask
  • multiprocessing
• other Python implementors (incl. micropython, numba)
• Trent Nelson (PyParallel)
• folks that benefit from isolated threads (& opt-in sharing) in-process
  • web (e.g. mod_wsgi)
  • async web (e.g. HTTP/2, Django Channels)
• Sarah Mount (python-csp)
• folks interested in alternate concurrency model to threading, async

Notable Resources

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• https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/subinterpreters.html
• https://vstinner.github.io/isolate-subinterpreters.html
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