I agree, it's not a problem in most spaces. I'm one of those not so lucky souls that could benefit from having the GIL removed. I do a load of concurrent read

I agree, it's not a problem in most spaces. I'm one of those not so lucky souls that could benefit from having the GIL removed. I do a load of concurrent read only access from multiple threads of execution on a large object in memory. At the moment I'm forced to fork using multiprocessing. It works, but it sucks to have the overhead. Though, as you say, it's really a non-issue for most workloads.