It depends what you mean by "choke". I think the parents consider "choke" to mean "will focus on one long-running task at the expense of any other task that nee

It depends what you mean by "choke". I think the parents consider "choke" to mean "will focus on one long-running task at the expense of any other task that needs to run". The GIL means that multiple threads won't be able to run python code in parallel, but the design should fairly share the available processing time between all threads that want to run.