May 8, 2012
6:13 p.m.
On Tue, 8 May 2012 19:40:32 +0200 Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@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.