Seun Osewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is it about Python that makes a thread-safe CPython version much > slower?... > I'm thinking it might be the reference counting approach to memory > management...
Yes. In the implementation that was benchmarked, if I understand correctly, every refcount had its own lock, that was acquired and released every time the refcount was modified. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
