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		mantrax5 on June 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited a... Coldtea got my point pretty well. Everyone else gets a whoosh. I'm not saying abandon Python for Java, I'm saying if you'll optimize Python, first optimize single-thread Python performance, before we get to parallel processing, because extracting performance out of parallel is hard, while languages like Java (and JavaScript recently) show they there's plenty more to be gained yet from that single thread.

Shish2k on June 9, 2014 [–]

A whoosh for you too :)

> there's plenty more to be gained yet from that single thread.

Except that there isn't, if your single thread is spending most of its time in highly optimised native code extensions already :P

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