Parallel Python within the same process or hacking around the cursed GIL with a hand-rolled library loader
From its obscure beginnings in Amsterdam, the Python programming language has become a fundamental building block of our digital society. It is used literally everywhere and by everyone for a mind-boggingly wide variety of tasks.
Python is also the lingua franca of Data Science, tying together tools for data loading, wrangling, analysis and AI. There is a massive ecosystem of contributed Python packages, which - for example - allows reading every obscure data format under the sun. This makes Python and its ecosystem extremely valuable for analytical data management systems: Users are likely somewhat familiar with Python due to its immense popularity and the ecosystem provides solutions for most data problems. As a result, Python is being integrated into SQL systems, typically through so-called User-Defined Functions (UDFs). For example, [Apach