ThreadPoolExecutor if IO-bound

ProcessPoolExecutor if CPU-bound

for example

    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as e:
        e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src1.txt', 'dest1.txt')
        e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src2.txt', 'dest2.txt')

but yeah if you're truly CPU bound then move to something lower level like C or Rust

I can recommend Julia for easier parallelization while being reasonably Python-like. It's compiled, too, which helps even with single-threaded throughput.

I've been seeing python at least once every week for a looooong time. Years. A decade maybe. You are not missing anything. It's a big steamy pile of horse manure.