Introducing Immortal Objects for Python - Engineering at Meta - Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683– to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime. This means that we can now share immortal objects across threads without requiring the GIL to provide thread safety.

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