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Wed May 9 12:18:42 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119388.html

On Wed, 9 May 2012 11:26:29 +0200
Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > > _decimal is about 12% faster without threads, because the expensive
> > > thread local context can be disabled.
> > 
> > If you cached the last thread id along with the corresponding context,
> > perhaps it could speed things up in most scenarios?
> 
> Nice. This reduces the speed difference to about 4%!

Note that you don't need the actual thread id, the Python thread state
is sufficient: PyThreadState_GET should be a simply variable lookup in
release builds.

Regards

Antoine.

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