[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Antoine Pitrou]

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