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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list