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Monday, 21st February 2022

Release sqlite-diffable 0.2.1 — Tools for dumping/loading a SQLite database to diffable directory structure

[history] When I tried this in 1996 (via) “I removed the GIL back in 1996 from Python 1.4...” is the start of a fascinating (supportive) comment by Greg Stein on the promising nogil Python fork that Sam Gross has been putting together. Greg provides some historical context that I’d never heard before, relating to an embedded Python for Microsoft IIS.

# 10:43 pm / gil, history, python

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