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Releasing GIL for C++ methods

Emanuele Roberto Nocera requested to merge swig_threads into master

Created by: siranipour

Not too sure if what I've done is correct, but it seems to be having the desired effect. Essentially it now releases the python GIL when you call a swig method.

I now see a marked improvement since I can run MakeReplica using concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor almost twice as fast.

See https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/927 and section 2.6 of http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/SWIGDocumentation.pdf

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