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0 pointszzzeek9y ago0 comments

> And will probably be less efficient.

they're not. gevent (and threads) are way faster than explicit asyncio, as all of asyncio's keywords / yields each have their own overhead. Here's my benches (disclaimer: for the "yield from" version of asyncio). http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...

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brettcannon9y ago· 1 in thread

Is that still true? Some uvloop benchmarking has shown it to be equivalent to gevent when using streams: https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ . Plus Python 3.6 has a bunch of optimizations for asyncio where all of these numbers are going to have to be re-evaluated.

zzzeekOP9y ago

not sure. I'm hoping the more native support for asyncio in 3.6 has improved matters. Certainly though, it's never going to be faster than gevent. Or threads for most tasks.

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