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		rocqua 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The first year of free-threaded Python Note that there is an entire order of magnitude range for a 'single digit'. A 1% slowdown seems totally fine. A 9% slowdown is pretty bad.

smilliken 7 months ago | [–]

I've seen benchmarks that estimate the regression at 20-30%, though I expect there's large variance depending on what a program's bottleneck is.

monkeyelite 7 months ago | [–]

If so, then why use python?

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