[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Stefan Krah]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > _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?

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


Stefan Krah