From 5e8396e6841e3aae8cc10117583e596ff294d7e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 19:42:36 +0200 Subject: [3.13] doc: Add glossary entry for "free threading" (GH-119865) (#119874) (cherry picked from commit 9bc6045842ebc91ec48ab163a9e1e8644231607c) Co-authored-by: Sam Gross --- Doc/glossary.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 1e5bafc..ae9949b 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -438,6 +438,12 @@ Glossary division. Note that ``(-11) // 4`` is ``-3`` because that is ``-2.75`` rounded *downward*. See :pep:`238`. + free threading + A threading model where multiple threads can run Python bytecode + simultaneously within the same interpreter. This is in contrast to + the :term:`global interpreter lock` which allows only one thread to + execute Python bytecode at a time. See :pep:`703`. + function A series of statements which returns some value to a caller. It can also be passed zero or more :term:`arguments ` which may be used in -- cgit v0.12