I think you missed my whole point. Whoosh. (PS. This is silly :P) > if [native code] was enough people wouldn't care about parallelizing Python They would, fo

I think you missed my whole point. Whoosh. (PS. This is silly :P) > if [native code] was enough people wouldn't care about parallelizing Python They would, for the same reason that they care about parellelizing Java -- once you're hitting the limits of single-thread speed (whether it's by being fast yourself or by having fast extensions), multithreading is next on the list.