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Re:Pyston v2.2: faster and open source by klibertp on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:00AM (#27061436)
And pay in memory for that luxury: when using lots of complex libraries (like in ML) the Python process can eat quite a lot of RAM.
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Re:Pyston v2.2: faster and open source by viraptor on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:31AM (#27062207)
Since gc.freeze() got implemented (https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.freeze) having forked workers has much lower cost these days. As long as you can load your data pre-fork that is.
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Re:Pyston v2.2: faster and open source by klibertp on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:27PM (#27065649)
Wow, I missed its introduction. Nice. On a cursory glance Celery doesn't make use of it yet, unfortunately.
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Re:Pyston v2.2: faster and open source by globular-toast on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:51AM (#27061839)
Yes. Python is not without tradeoffs.
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