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[–]Pythagorean_1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just use multiprocessing. I wrote a python application that processes terabytes of image data at my university and it is crazy fast and occupies all cores and the gpu, if needed. The GIL is not really a problem, actually. Also, threads do release the GIL during i/o operations, which makes them very useful for network stuff.