The latest version of Python, 3.5, implements the async and await keywords for asynchronous coroutines. I am beginning to get my head around them, and I understand that there is a distinction between concurrency and parallelism. Nonetheless, they are related and very often you can do concurrent tasks in parallel.
Hence, I am wondering: is there any way to use the new async and await features to do actual parallelism?
Currently in python, parallel processing needs to be done using the multiprocessing module, forking your process into multiple ones. This is because python has THE GIL, a 'feature' that prevents any one python interpreter from having multiple threads running in parallel. The new async / await are going to help people make asynchronous (concurrent) programs easier, but I don't think that they're going to help us with actual parallel computing.
