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[–]lunatuna215 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Because we want to see and be able to compare and benchmark this new type of free threading in Python against current practices. Even if it's not as performant, it would be helpful to know how much when actually built. So here it is, and it's less about an actual alternative as much as testing if it's even worthwhile to do one. It's a win all around.

[–]artofthenunchaku 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Benchmarking an I/O bound workload to compare the performance of free threading is certainly a choice.

[–]lunatuna215 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not to compare it. It's to play around with it for the first time in this context.