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Maarten Breddels
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Maarten Breddels's personal blog at maartenbreddels.com covers programming and data. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on instrumenting Python's GIL with tracing tools, as an alternative to an eBPF approach. One commenter cites it when discussing GIL performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Here is another post describing an alternative approach to instrumenting Python GIL: https://www.maartenbreddels.com/perf/jupyter/python/tracing/... .
Comment linking /perf/jupyter/python/tracing/gil/2021/01/14/Tracing-the-Python-GIL.html
on “Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF”Submitted Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThere is another currently new hacker news thread [1] referencing this post [2] where the influence of the performance of the GIL is evaluated. It seems not so large, of course depending on the tasks performed by the interpreted part. At a former workplace we had a C/C++ application which allowed integration of customer code via TCL which worked well and had acceptable performance even with the TCL code in a hot pat…
Comment linking /perf/jupyter/python/tracing/gil/2021/01/14/Tracing-the-Python-GIL.html
on “Why You Should Not Use Tcl (1994)”Submitted Tracing the Python GIL as a story · 8 points
HN discussion