On Sep 19, 3:41 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Sep, 03:09, TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How much faster/slower would Greg Stein's code be on today's > > processors versus CPython running on the processors of the late > > 1990's? And if you decide to answer, please add a true/false response > > to this statement - "CPython in the late 1990's ran too slow". > > Too slow for what? And what's the fixation with CPython, anyway? Other > implementations of Python 2.x don't have the GIL. Contrary to popular > folklore, Jython has been quite a reasonable implementation of Python > for about half as long as CPython has been around, if you don't mind > the JVM. I'm sure people have lots of complaints about Jython like > they do about CPython and the GIL, thinking that complaining about it > is going to make the situation better, or that they're imparting some > kind of "wisdom" to which the people who actually wrote the code must > be oblivious, but nobody is withholding the code from anyone who wants > to actually improve it.
> > And there we learn something: that plenty of people are willing to > prod others into providing them with something that will make their > lives better, their jobs easier, and their profits greater, but not so > many are interested in contributing back to the cause and taking on > very much of the work themselves. Anyway, the response to your > statement is "false". Now you'll have to provide us with the insight > we're all missing. Don't disappoint! > > Paul Paul it's a pleasure to see that you are not entirely against complaints. The very fastest Intel processor of the last 1990's that I found came out in October 1999 and had a speed around 783Mhz. Current fastest processors are something like 3.74 Ghz, with larger caches. Memory is also faster and larger. It appears that someone running a non-GIL implementation of CPython today would have significantly faster performance than a GIL CPython implementation of the late 1990's. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that saying non-GIL CPython is too slow, while once valid, has become invalid due to the increase in computing power that has taken place. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
