On 2009-07-23 13:15:00 -0400, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> said:
I get the feeling I'm missing the joke?
Yes, you are missing the joke. The point is that if python is 60x slower than C, even if there were not a GIL, it would require running the python program on a 60 core machine just reach parity with C. The existence of the GIL means that in reality you'd probably need a several hundred core machine running python just to equal what C can do on one core. Hence the 13375p34k pseudo quote - "teh slowness on all ur cores!"
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