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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by lstyls on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:06PM (#15012899)
This is a good point and one of the few convincing arguments I've heard against the GIL. Thanks for providing so much detail!

Did you consider just mounting a ramdisk and storing data as files? At first glance it seems like a decent fit for sharing read-only data in memory.

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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by darpa_escapee on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:04PM (#15014496)
From my experience, tmpfs adds an overhead. If I use an in-menory database for SQLite, it is about twice as fast to interact with than accessing a database file loaded into a tmpfs.
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