Will multithreading make python less popular?

[Steve Holden]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 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.
> 
>From a historical perspective, that's going to seem like a very
parochial PoV in (say) twenty years.

regards
 Steve
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