On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:19:29 -0700
Guido van Rossum
Here you're basically arguing for greenlets/gevent -- you're saying you just don't want to put up with the yields everywhere. But the popularity of Twisted and Tornado show that at least some people are willing to make even bigger sacrifices in order to be able to do async I/O efficiently -- i.e., to solve the C10K problem that Christian Tismer referred to (http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem).
To be honest, one of the selling points of Twisted is not that it solves the C10k problem, it's that it's a comprehensive network programming toolkit. I'd bet many users of Twisted don't care that much about the single-thread event-loop approach, and don't have C10k-like problems. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net