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by fulafel 828 days ago
Re (1), are there publicly documented cases with numbers on observed slowdowns with it?

I see this mentioned from time to time, but intuitively you'd think this wouldn't pose a big slowdown since the system builtin objects would have been allocated at the same time (startup) and densely located on smaller nr of pages. I guess if you have a lot of global state in your app it could be more significant.

Would also be interesting to see a benchmark using hugepages, you'd think this could solve remaining perf problems if they were due to large number of independent CoW page faults.

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Replying to my self: it seems one poster case was Instagram and their very large Django app: https://bugs.python.org/issue40255#msg366835