Re: [Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:

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Nice. This reduces the speed difference to about 4%!

Note that you don't need the actual thread id, the Python thread state is sufficient: PyThreadState_GET should be a simply variable lookup in release builds.

I've tried both ways now and the speed gain is roughly the same.

Perhaps the interpreter as a whole is slightly faster --without-threads? That would explain the remaining speed difference of 4%.

Actually this seems to be the case: In the benchmark floats are also about 3% faster without threads. Stefan Krah