The reason I asked "slower than what", is because at no point have I claimed that going to memcached would be faster than a local hash (with locking). Whereas

The reason I asked "slower than what", is because at no point have I claimed that going to memcached would be faster than a local hash (with locking). Whereas I have (in this thread) claimed that an interpreter without a GIL (and with fine grained locking) would be slower than one with a GIL (for single-threaded workloads). I wanted to know which you meant. You haven't shown (I believe because it's not there) where I claimed that going to memcached would be faster. And you're being rude and trying to provoke a reaction. And HN is hiding the reply link because it's heuristics have determined that the signal/noise of these posts is likely to be low. And I agree and so won't reply further in this thread.