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  • Adds InternalDocs/free_threading.md — a glossary of the low-level building blocks used in free-threaded CPython
  • Covers: object header layout, biased reference counting, critical sections, PyMutex, immortalization, deferred refcounting, GC bit flags, atomic operations, and QSBR (cross-reference)
  • Adds link to the new document in InternalDocs/README.md

Closes gh-128642.

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Free threading glossary of building blocks

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