Carl> Here's the thing: not everyone complaining about the GIL is trying
Carl> to get the "raw power of their machines." They just want to take
Carl> advantage of multiple cores so that their Python program runs
Carl> faster.
If their code is CPU-bound it's likely that rewriting critical parts in C or
using packages like numpy would improve there performance with or without
multi-threading. For people who aren't used to C there are tools like Pyrex
and Cython which provide a middle road.
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