Yeah I've never liked the async stuff. I've used the existing theading library and it's been fine, for those programs that are blocked on i/o most of the time.

Yeah I've never liked the async stuff. I've used the existing theading library and it's been fine, for those programs that are blocked on i/o most of the time. The GIL hasn't been a problem. Those programs often ran on single core machines anyway. We would have been better off without the GIL in the first place, but we may be in for headaches by removing it now.