Session

Subinterpreters and Getting a PEP Accepted with Eric Snow

with Eric Snow, Jay Miller

Microsoft at PyCon US 2023

Eric Snow has been working on a Python Enhancement Proposal that will greatly change how multi-threading works with Python for nearly a decade. When he joined the Faster CPython Team at Microsoft, production increased rapidly and this year PEP 684 - "A Per-Interpreter GIL" was approved.

Eric sat with Senior Cloud Advocate for Python - Jay Miller at PyCon US and talked about the PEP process, the steps after approval and what attending PyCon US provides for him as a Core Developer and PEP Author.

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 00:40 - Core Developers at PyCon
  • 02:10 - Getting PEP 684 Accepted
  • 04:44 - What is PEP 684 - A Per-Interpreter GIL
  • 08:40 - Getting it to the finish line
  • 11:50 - Wrapping up PyCon

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