qstwall

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1. 1.▲
   by qstwall 5y ago

   It will still be slow if the threaded code is in pure Python.
2. 2.▲
   by qstwall 5y ago

   It took several years to migrate Twisted or NumPy. The 10 years is the cumulative pain of having 30% of packages not migrated yet. It took at least 7 years to have 90% migrated.
3. 3.▲
   by qstwall 5y ago

   It is hard to see the point of a GIL removal that will destabilize the C extension ecosystem for probably a decade again: C extensions can already start as many threads as they like. Threaded pure Python, even if GIL-less, is still slow, so