docs: revise GIL section for Python 3.13 updates - #742
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Updated GIL explanation to include changes in Python 3.13 and free-threading mode.
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Follow-up to #742, which updated the GIL section to mention free threading but stopped one version short and introduced some formatting noise. Content: - Free threading was experimental in 3.13 and became officially supported in 3.14 (PEP 779). The previous text presented 3.13 as the milestone, which both overstates 3.13 and omits 3.14 -- the version this project already tests against. - Clarify that the free-threaded interpreter is a separate build, not a runtime switch on a normal installation, so readers on a stock python3.13 don't follow the note and get nothing. - Drop "allowing for true multi-threading parallelism". RxPY is not tested under free threading (no 3.13t/3.14t in the CI matrix), so the docs should describe CPython's capability, not imply RxPY exploits it. - The GIL prevents concurrent bytecode execution, not "accessing the same line of code simultaneously". - Link the official free-threading howto, and note in the parallelism section that pure-Python work can scale on a free-threaded build. Formatting: - Remove five lines of trailing whitespace and a double space. - Re-wrap to the file's ~80 column convention (seven lines were 89-107 characters, against three over 88 in the rest of the file). - RxPy -> RxPY. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Updated GIL explanation to include changes in Python 3.13 and free-threading mode.