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One important caveat to remember is that this is before a lot of the work on free-threaded python started in full force. A lot of cutting edge work had to be do
by alfalfasprout 1y ago
One important caveat to remember is that this is before a lot of the work on free-threaded python started in full force. A lot of cutting edge work had to be done to support this in the GC but this came with performance penalties. As a result, the trajectory of the Faster CPython effort changed quite a bit.
Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too...
- pansa2 1y ago> Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too... Only after the four-year period was over, during which they only delivered a 1.5x - 2x speedup instead of the projected 5x.
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoSure, reality is a harsh mistress, but those were really optimistic targets which were used to frame a lot of the development efforts.