[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> > > 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