Message 78905 - Python tracker

Message78905

Author	ebfe
Recipients	ebfe, gps, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2009-01-02.23:50:55
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Message-id	<1230940256.41.0.926530895119.issue4751@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I don't think so. The interface should stay simple - python has very few such magic knobs. People will optimize for their own box as you said - and that code will run worse on all the others... Besides, we've lived so long with single-threaded openssl. Let's make HASHLIB_GIL_MINSIZE such that there is no risk of additional overhead introduced by this patch and refer to it's current value in the hashlib-module's documentation.

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I don't think so.

The interface should stay simple - python has very few such magic knobs.
People will optimize for their own box as you said - and that code will
run worse on all the others...

Besides, we've lived so long with single-threaded openssl. Let's make
HASHLIB_GIL_MINSIZE such that there is no risk of additional overhead
introduced by this patch and refer to it's current value in the
hashlib-module's documentation.

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