ericsnow

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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   One side effect of Nick Coghlan's PEP 432 (interpreter startup) is that is makes the effort of consolidating global state (out of static variables) easier. His implementation is progressing. My proposed subinterpreter-based project w
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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   you forgot your <hand-wavy gross exaggeration> tags
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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   Thanks for the feedback.
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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   That's the point of the subinterpreter approach. It's only a viable approach if we can achieve the data isolation of multiprocessing with the efficiency of threads.
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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   Also, the way you have described the CPython core developers and their efforts to improve the language is a bit disingenuous. I apologize if you've had some experience that left you with negative feelings. Keep in mind that like just
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   by ericsnow 11y ago

   The problem is that in CPython the only mechanism to leverage multiple cores for CPU-bound workloads is the multiprocessing module. That module suffers from the cost of serializing all objects that are transferred between processes over IP