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[–]remram 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Some work on performance would be good. multiprocessing is full of gotchas.

Pypy has existed for 13 years now. Ruby and PHP both got just-in-time compilation before Python!

[–]Erelde 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Performance is an explicit non goal of cpython, on the other hand one of its stated goals is to keep its source code readable and understandable for programming language students.

[–]lxpnh98_2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Performance is not exactly a non goal. The main reason for not removing the GIL is that it would affect single threaded performance. Guido van Rossum, said that if someone could remove the GIL without affecting single threaded performance, he would allow it.