Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems wasn't > very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms have it. > Is it still useful for production purposes to configure > --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than > curiosity of mind?
_decimal is about 12% faster without threads, because the expensive thread local context can be disabled. On OpenBSD threading leads to strange problems like delayed signals in the REPL http://bugs.python.org/issue8714 . Without threads these problems don't occur. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
