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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by zepolen on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:42AM (#15016976)
Could you post the code for that fib program I couldn't find it anywhere.
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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by alfanerd on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:08PM (#15022600)
It is in the Gilectomy branch of Larry Hastings github project. (https://github.com/larryhastings/gilectomy)

I also pasted the fib test to pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ryyb2K7V

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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by zepolen on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:37AM (#15053603)
Ah so just the naive recursive fibonacci on 8 threads with no data sharing between them.

Interestingly doing the same on Cpython using the multiprocessing module was ~2x slower than jython/threads. More interestingly pypy with multiprocessing was ~5x faster than jython/threads.

  $ time jython fib.py 40
  real	1m11.247s
  user	6m14.130s
  sys	0m3.012s
  
  $ time python fib.py 40
  real	2m4.067s
  user	11m46.103s
  sys	0m2.352s
  
  $ time pypy fib.py 40
  real	0m21.040s
  user	1m51.461s
  sys	0m1.892s
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