[$] Progress on the Gilectomy

At the 2016 Python Language Summit, Larry Hastings introduced Gilectomy, his project to removethe global interpreter lock (GIL) from CPython. The GIL serializes accessto the Python interpreter, so it severely limits the performance ofmulti-threaded Python programs. At the 2017 summit, Hastings was back toupdate attendees on the progress he has made and where Gilectomy is headed.