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What async really means for your python web app? (hackeryarn.com)
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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months 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.world 2 points 8 months 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.

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