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Note: My education on this topic is lacking, so I may be making some naive assumptions.
Assume you have a function performing blocking I/O. You need to run this function n times.
If you were to simply spawn n threads (using the threading module) and start them at the same time, would it work to simply use the GIL to manage the threads (based on I/O) as opposed to using the multiprocessing.pool module to manage subprocesses?
It’s bad practice to use an implementation detail as a core feature of your code. The GIL is an implementation detail of CPython, and doesn’t exist in other implementations.
Use things that are designed to do what you want.