You missed the but the legacy code is going to be a big, big problem. part. If, as other posters point out, those C extensions are not designed to work without the the GIL, then its going to be a 2->3 situation.
Frankly, I honor the Python folks and all their achievements, but I really dislike the language. I mostly am researching another paradigm.
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Not all dynamic languages are born the same.
You might like you join the PyPy team then and find out.
You missed the but the legacy code is going to be a big, big problem. part. If, as other posters point out, those C extensions are not designed to work without the the GIL, then its going to be a 2->3 situation.
Frankly, I honor the Python folks and all their achievements, but I really dislike the language. I mostly am researching another paradigm.