[andreareina]

I'm one of those with embarrassingly-parallel cpu-bound workloads. The multiprocessing module works, but the extra bookkeeping and plumbing over an actually-parallel-multithreading implementation is a pain in the butt. That said, the multithreading speedup is both faster and easier than porting to another language.

[acdha]

Definitely - I used to support a computational lab and have worked on enough other CPU-bound problems to have plenty of things which I wouldn’t recommend Python for. I just think that as a field we’re predisposed to focus on that as the kind of work Real Programmers™️ do when most groups are limited by their ability to implement and maintain business logic long before they hit the wall on what Python can do.