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it doesnt make it any less true. besides, that C python's GIL sucks doesnt mean threading or event models sucks.

In doubt, ask nginx how they feel about that. Then ask apache's mpn-prefork how that feels.

If you're holding a global mutex every 100 instructions while context switching between CPU bound tasks, then yes, the GIL does suck. There are a class of IO-bound problems where threading/evented models in Python can be used effectively but that's not the class of problems the author is talking about here.

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