There was always a denial of removing the Global Interpreter Lock because it would decrease single threaded Python speed for which most people din’t care.

So I remember a guy recently came up with a patch that both removed GIL and also to make it easier for the core team to accept it he added also an equivalent number of optimizations.

I hope this release was is not we got the optimizations but ignored the GIL part.

If anyone more knowledgable can review this and give some feedback I think will be here in HN