Making CPython faster

Posted Jun 4, 2021 17:24 UTC (Fri) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Making CPython faster by LtWorf
Parent article: Making CPython faster

You don't even need to go that far. Most of the serious scientific computing community is already using NumPy or SciPy, and those are not subject to the GIL because they run the big expensive parts in native code.

Even if Python dropped the GIL tomorrow, those libraries would continue to be used. Native code is so much faster than interpreted code that it's not worth even trying to make Python fast enough to compete with them.