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andkenneth on June 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Iris: Fast back-end web framework for Go

yeah, the GIL only slows down threaded code. The big reason that the GIL hasn't been removed is that any patch removing the GIL slows single threaded performance.

weberc2 on June 21, 2016 [–]

The GIL massively slows down threaded code. To the point where (almost?) all multithreaded cases are actually slower than single threaded cases. :(

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