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.
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