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I don't think python is ever going to get rid of the GIL. I haven't looked but there's two things that may speed things up quite a bit: - Use native types - Pro

I don't think python is ever going to get rid of the GIL. I haven't looked but there's two things that may speed things up quite a bit: - Use native types - Provide the ability to turn "off" the GIL if you know you will not be using multi-threading within a process. I guess that is my naive wish list for a short term speed up :)

TOMDM 5y ago
A pythonic language that included something analogous to Golangs channels/goroutines would be my ideal.
- borodi 5y ago
  Julia does have channels similar to those of Go, although if you want to call it pythonic or not is up to you.
  - TOMDM 5y ago
    I've seen hype for Julia over and over, but this is the first piece of information that's made me genuinely interested. Thanks for the heads up! EDIT: Oh god it's 1 indexed
    - borodi 5y ago
      While people discuss a lot about it, in the end 1 indexing doesn't really matter. I think it comes from fortran/matlab.
      - TOMDM 5y ago
        I agree, it doesn't really matter, but I've been programming long enough that I can see it being that top step that's always half an inch too tall that I'm going to stub my toe on.
        borodi 5y ago
        For sure, I switch between python, C/C++ an julia a lot and well, lets say bounds errors are pretty common for me.
        oscardssmith 5y ago
        My advice would be to use begin and end. Then you don't have to think about the indexing.
        snicker7 5y ago
        The "idiomatic" way to access the first element in an array/sequence in julia is to use the `first` function, e.g. `first(arr)` vs. `arr[1]`. This works across a larger number of array types, including OffsetArrays with 0-based index offsets.
dec0dedab0de 5y ago
Jython doesn't have a gil, but It doesn't support python3, and I've never used it.
- gautamdivgi 5y ago
  Jython would also have issues with the many c libraries that python code relies on today.
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shepardrtc 5y ago
Numba might be what you're looking for: http://numba.pydata.org/ http://numba.pydata.org/
- gautamdivgi 5y ago
  That looks really interesting. I'll definitely be trying it out. Thanks!!!

TOMDM 5y ago

A pythonic language that included something analogous to Golangs channels/goroutines would be my ideal.

borodi 5y ago
Julia does have channels similar to those of Go, although if you want to call it pythonic or not is up to you.
- TOMDM 5y ago
  I've seen hype for Julia over and over, but this is the first piece of information that's made me genuinely interested. Thanks for the heads up! EDIT: Oh god it's 1 indexed
  - borodi 5y ago
    While people discuss a lot about it, in the end 1 indexing doesn't really matter. I think it comes from fortran/matlab.
    - TOMDM 5y ago
      I agree, it doesn't really matter, but I've been programming long enough that I can see it being that top step that's always half an inch too tall that I'm going to stub my toe on.
      - borodi 5y ago
        For sure, I switch between python, C/C++ an julia a lot and well, lets say bounds errors are pretty common for me.
      - oscardssmith 5y ago
        My advice would be to use begin and end. Then you don't have to think about the indexing.
      - snicker7 5y ago
        The "idiomatic" way to access the first element in an array/sequence in julia is to use the `first` function, e.g. `first(arr)` vs. `arr[1]`. This works across a larger number of array types, including OffsetArrays with 0-based index offsets.

dec0dedab0de 5y ago

Jython doesn't have a gil, but It doesn't support python3, and I've never used it.

gautamdivgi 5y ago
Jython would also have issues with the many c libraries that python code relies on today.
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shepardrtc 5y ago

Numba might be what you're looking for: http://numba.pydata.org/ http://numba.pydata.org/

gautamdivgi 5y ago
That looks really interesting. I'll definitely be trying it out. Thanks!!!