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    Comment #44065323

    You don't have to build from source. uv is the best option, in my opinion, but the py-free-threading docs also have a longer list too: uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started…

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    Comment #39671732

    We could implement ownership transfer in CPython in the future, but it's a bit trickier. In Rust, "move" to transfer ownership is part of the language, but there isn't an equivalen…

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    Comment #38304522

    You will always get either [1,2,3,4,5,6] or [4,5,6,1,2,3] in the upcoming `--disable-gil` builds of CPython 3.13 and the nogil forks. Most operations on mutable collections hold a …

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    Comment #37784564

    Memory models don't usually explicitly guarantee that writes "eventually become visible". They're usually written as ordering guarantees for when a write becomes visible, such as h…

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    Comment #37781588

    Go's memory model is more constrained than C, C++, and Swift and this case is specifically addressed: https://go.dev/ref/mem#restrictions . "...each read of a single-word-sized or …

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    Comment #37529440

    This misses the fact that signed integer promotions are generally not free because they require sign extension. For example, the cast in b() emits a `movsx` (move with sign-extensi…

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    Comment #19975161

    It has example images with Q&A now: https://github.com/facebookresearch/pythia

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    Comment #19679658

    The PyTorch tensor library was originally basically the Python version of Torch 7. It's now moving closer towards NumPy's API (and farther from Torch 7). Th autograd library was in…

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    Comment #15009169

    Your criteria 2, 3, and 4 doesn't make much sense to me. We often have workloads that require multiple boxes, but we still want to make effective use of each box. Common server har…