arigo

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   by arigo 6y ago

   No. See A Disclaimer about the GIL right after the Abstract.
2. 2.▲
   by arigo 13y ago

   You are half correct and half wrong. We want to also speed up programs that handle largely independent events without using threads, which is a much bigger "market" in Python than allowing existing multithreaded programs to run f
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   by arigo 13y ago

   The summary is good :-) Two details. First, cloning a complete page and calling remap_file_pages() only occurs once on a given page, so if a number of transactions repeatedly modify the same objects, they will already be in un-shared pages
4. 4.▲
   by arigo 14y ago

   The HTM buffer is too small for any language for doing what I'm talking about, which is long transactions. Haswell uses its L1 Data cache as buffer --- which means at most 32KB or 64KB, and only if you're on a lucky day. (Actually it depe