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On 24 December 2017 at 08:41, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
>>  will slow Lua down to Python speeds.
>
> A reference to such a comparison would be good here.

if that was a reference to defining those macros that essentially add
lock operations to every mutation, it does feel about right since in
essence it adds a Global Interpreter Lock, the dreaded "GIL problem"
that made Python folks essentially abandon threading in favor of
communicating processes.

-- 
Javier