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davvid | 11 months ago

The article didn't mention Python's atomic refcounts. They're very bad for cache usage as they're constantly invalidating cache.

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quotemstr|11 months ago

The only version of Python that uses atomic reference counting is the very new free threaded version.

senderista|11 months ago

Non-atomic refcounts invalidate cache as well, they're just not as expensive.