How many other people knew nothing about the GIL. Got to using threading and inevitably found major performance issues that were 100% caused by the GIL? Thusly

How many other people knew nothing about the GIL. Got to using threading and inevitably found major performance issues that were 100% caused by the GIL? Thusly moving to multiprocessing and dealing with the lack of shared memory issues, with managers. When/if the GIL goes away, good riddence.