Asynchronous execution of synchronous functions

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2022-09-26, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   So, I wanted to try to download all pages in parallel with
>   processes to avoid any GIL effect, while I don't understand
>   what the GIL actuall is. But processes didn't work here, so
>   I tried threads. This worked and now the total run time is
>   down to about 50 seconds.

Downloading things from the network is *extremely* I/O-bound.
So, as you have discovered, the GIL is going to make essentially
no difference whatsoever.