Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (RR) wrote:

>RR> By definition an I/O bound thread isn't CPU bound so won't benefit from
>RR> improved CPU resources.

But doing I/O is not the same as being I/O bound. And Python allows
multithreading when a thread does I/O even if that thread is not I/O
bound but CPU bound. See my other posting for an example.
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