asyncio doesn't solve any "problems" of threads in Python. it just provides programming patterns that a lot of people like, which are well suited towards havin

asyncio doesn't solve any "problems" of threads in Python. it just provides programming patterns that a lot of people like, which are well suited towards having hundreds or thousands of arbitrarily slow IO bound tasks at once. A threadpool in Python can do the same thing with mostly similar performance. asyncio certainly isn't affecting the GIL issue, asyncio is "GIL-ish" by definition since all CPU work occurs in a single thread. meaning, if the GIL were removed from Python, the performance of threaded concurrency would soar, asyncio would not move an inch.