STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> It appears that the stall happens due to time.strftime call, which internally
> opens
> a file ('/etc/localtime')
In the GNU libc, strftime() calls tzset() and tzset() uses a lock to be thread
safe. Yes, releasing the GIL before calling strftime() would speed up your use
case.
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nosy: +haypo
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