Python continues to get better async support and with that comes pressure to switch. See the realistic effects that switching to async would have on your web servers.
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I mean, it’s a bit of a weird comparison to begin with. Web servers were always able to parallelize without async, because they’d just spawn a new thread per request. The real advantage of async is programs where working with threads isn’t as trivial…

    • hackeryarn@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 days ago

      I totally agree with you. This article was really a response to a lot of hype around async web servers in Python.

      I kind of knew what to expect, but wanted to throw real numbers against it. I was surprised to see a 10x slowdown with the async switch in Django.