On a macOS arm64 (M1) machine, running the NumPy test suite:
Default build:
pixi r test -- --collect-only: 10 spixi r test(1 thread): 163 s.pixi r test -j2(pytest-xdist): 116 s.
Free-threaded build (python 3.14):
pixi r test-nogil -- --collect-only: 10 spixi r test-nogil -- --collect-only --parallel-threads=2: 30 s