Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment:

Closing this issue.
It is largely superseded.  For our Python 2.7 branches, we have a custom "GIL" 
lock which can have different inherent semantics from the common "Lock".  In 
particular, we can implement a "fair" PyGIL_Handoff() function to be used to 
yield the GIL to a waiting thread.

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status: open -> closed

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