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To me, the acceptable slowdown is exactly zero. This has been the reason most of the previous GIL removal projects failed. GvR had a strict zero slowdown in si
by dagw 3y ago
To me, the acceptable slowdown is exactly zero.
This has been the reason most of the previous GIL removal projects failed. GvR had a strict zero slowdown in single-thread performance rule for any nogil patches and none of them managed that. I wonder if the core team has decided to abandon that rule now that GvR is gone?
- alecmg 3y agoI saw comments that if introduced together with Faster CPython single thread performance optimisations, nogil would end up no slower than previous version. So it is best time to implement