Comment by westurner
"PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython" (2023) https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
CPython built with --disable-gil does not have a GIL (as long as PYTHONGIL=0 and all loaded C extensions are built for --disable-gil mode) https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#py-mod-gil-slot
"Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913328#36917709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913328#36921625
This is pretty beside the point. The point is that X not having a GIL doesn't inherently mean Python on X also doesn't have a GIL.