[issue1366311] SRE engine should release the GIL when/if possible

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:

> Did you try to use regex which has this feature? For short strings and simple patterns there may be no benefit.

In my use case, it’s not possible, since the problematic API is glob.iglob() through multiple levels of calls.

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