[Python-Dev] Re: marking shared-ness

[Guido van Rossum]

> It is more than this. In my last shot at this, pystone ran about half as
> fast. There are a few things that will be different this time around, but
> it certainly won't in the "few percent" range.

Interesting thought: according to patches recently posted to
patches@python.org (but not yet vetted), "turning on" threads on Win32
in regular Python also slows down Pystone considerably.  Maybe it's
not so bad?  Maybe those patches contain a hint of what we could do?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)