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		kkirsche on June 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Async Python is not faster This reminds me of Rob Pike’s talk from Golang about how concurrency is not parallelism. I think the python community may be hitting this issue where async is meant to model concurrent behavior not always or necessarily facilitate parallel activity

chooseaname on June 12, 2020 [–]

I think a good chunk of Python developers expected (expect?) async to be a "get out of GIL free card". It's not.

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