Terry Reedy wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > >> I would say, slow execution is a drawback that we put up with in order >> to gain benefits of Python programming that are mostly unrelated to >> the causes of the slowness. The slowness itself can be addressed by >> technical means, such as native-code compilation and eliminating the >> GIL. > > Given that the GIL remains to make Python run faster in the usual (up to > now, at least) case of 1 processor, that seems a strange statement. > >From a historical perspective, that's going to seem like a very parochial PoV in (say) twenty years.
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