Stale GIL glossary definition #117739
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The definition of the GIL in the glossary is stale as a result of #116338 in Python 3.13.
Specifically:
Past efforts to create a “free-threaded” interpreter (one which locks shared data at a much finer granularity) have not been successful because performance suffered in the common single-processor case. It is believed that overcoming this performance issue would make the implementation much more complicated and therefore costlier to maintain.