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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> Remember, Python’s threads are OS threads. If you’re thinking “expensive”, 
> you must be assuming “Microsoft Windows”.

Let's see how CPython holds up with a million OS threads running.  Even
being able to disable the GIL and use more than one core is very recent.