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		ctoth on May 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL From upthread: > My page load time dropped from 77ms to 47ms when I ran some of the code in parallel. I suspect some of us welders will also find some improvements here.

coldtea on May 12, 2022 [–]

That's just a 2x speed increase.

More than 5x can be achieved with the GIL included (and has been promised, by the new Microsoft Python-speed-up initiative and that Python dev who made a similar proposal).

ivoflipse on May 12, 2022 | [–]

That Python dev (Mark Shannon) is part of the Microsoft team :-)

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