Daniel> I am assuming the GIL is limiting threading and therefore I am
Daniel> really running on one or two cores--hence the tangible
Daniel> improvement is just CPU speed: from 2.33 GHz to 3.0 GHz and a
Daniel> bit of the memory bandwidth increase as well.
The GIL doesn't enter into things here. The pystones benchmark isn't
multithreaded so even if Python was free-threaded the pystones benchmark
wouldn't benefit from it.
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