Simon Willison’s Weblog

Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python. A comparison of eight different asynchronous networking frameworks in Python. Tornado comes out on top in most of the benchmarks, but the post is most interesting for the direct comparison of simple code examples for each of the frameworks.

# 22nd December 2009, 10:34 pm / async, benchmarks, dieselweb, eventio, eventlet, gevent, orbited, python, stackless, tornado, twisted

disturbyte’s zenqueue. Simple, tiny and fast Python message queue server built on top of coroutines and Eventlet, using JSON over TCP as the message format. I’m impressed with how potentially useful this looks considering the small amount of code. The author benchmarks it at 28 thousand messages/second.

# 11th May 2009, 1:27 pm / coroutines, eventlet, github, json, message-queues, python, zachary-voase, zenqueue

Spawning + Django. The latest version of Spawning (a fast Python web server built on top of the Eventlet non-blocking coroutine networking library) can run Django applications out of the box, using threads and processes to work around the blocking nature of the ORM’s database drivers. Eric Florenzano reports better performance than Apache and mod_wsgi, and is now hosting his site on it.

# 31st July 2008, 10:56 am / comet, django, eric-florenzano, eventlet, python, spawning

A Toy Chat Server with Eventlet and Mulib (via) Eventlet (the Python non-blocking IO library originally written for Second Life) is ideally suited to building Comet servers; Chuck Thier demonstrates a simple chat server in a small amount of code.

# 21st March 2008, 3:28 am / chuckthier, comet, eventlet, lindenlab, mulib, python, secondlife

Eventlet—Second Life Wiki. Seriously powerful non-blocking IO library for Python, currently maintained by Linden Lab as part of the server architecture used for Second Life.

# 26th November 2007, 3:21 pm / eventlet, io, lindenlab, python, secondlife