Since then, the idea of getting rid of the GIL has occasionally come up but
nobody has found a way to deal with the expected slowdown, and users who don't
-use threads would not be happy if their code ran at half at the speed. Greg's
+use threads would not be happy if their code ran at half the speed. Greg's
free threading patch set has not been kept up-to-date for later Python versions.
This doesn't mean that you can't make good use of Python on multi-CPU machines!