On Tue, 8 May 2012 19:40:32 +0200 Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > 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.
If you cached the last thread id along with the corresponding context, perhaps it could speed things up in most scenarios? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
