Will multithreading make python less popular?

[Terry Reedy]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> I would say, slow execution is a drawback that we put up with in order
> to gain benefits of Python programming that are mostly unrelated to
> the causes of the slowness.  The slowness itself can be addressed by
> technical means, such as native-code compilation and eliminating the
> GIL.

Given that the GIL remains to make Python run faster in the usual (up to 
now, at least) case of 1 processor, that seems a strange statement.