Free-threaded Python (Interview)

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And plenty of authors of C extensions like NumPy and so on can also depend on the fact that as soon as you have the golden number lock, you have a lock that you can yourself depend on for your own synchronization needs. So now, without that, you're going to have to have fine-grained locking. So for every of those use cases that require synchronization, you're going to have to have a smaller lock.