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One explanation could be that the system allocator needs to be thread safe, and this Doren's time with locking. Python is single threaded so perhaps is custom a
by ErikCorry 7y ago
One explanation could be that the system allocator needs to be thread safe, and this Doren's time with locking. Python is single threaded so perhaps is custom allocator is lock free.
- alexchamberlain 7y ago> Python is single threaded This is inaccurate; especially when considering the thread safety of memory allocation.