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I think the Bitcoin part is simple - it doesn't have the perverse incentives of an investment vehicle. Everyone's financial stake is indirect and diffuse, it's
by maxbond 1y ago
I think the Bitcoin part is simple - it doesn't have the perverse incentives of an investment vehicle. Everyone's financial stake is indirect and diffuse, it's not likely that any given PEP is directly connected to a developer's bottom line (though presumably this happens occasionally).
- brcmthrowaway 1y agoBig companies submit PEPs to force their will on Python. Meta and GIL removal.
- maxbond 1y agoWho is pro-GIL...? The point is that, unlike in the Bitcoin block size debacle, you don't have people who are pulling in different directions because it directly impacts their bottom line if Python does X or Y. There's no one who particularly profits from there being a GIL.
- dagw 1y agoWho is pro-GIL Nobody is pro-GIL per se. But a lot of people were pro-No-Single-Threaded-Performance-Desegregation. The first GIL-removal patch was submitted all the way back against python 1.4, and regular attempts have been made ever since, but it wasn't possible to remove the GIL without making the single threaded performance of existing python code worse, so Guido and co. refused to accept them.
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- bgwalter 1y agoAnd the performance hit is still up to 50%, just like in the first attempts. Except this time it comes from Facebook.
- maxbond 1y agoPoking around, I've not been able to find anyone else claiming higher than 10%? Is this 50% from your benchmarks, or is there a link I can see?