[Chicago] Tornado, shines good on Python?

[Martin Maney]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:30:56PM -0500, Brian Ray wrote:
> Any thoughts on this...
>
>     http://www.tornadoweb.org/
>
> From http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145214 Bret Taylor,  
> Facebook's Director of Products:
>
>     """Tornado also offers much higher performance than existing Python 
> web frameworks. A multiple process Tornado server on a 4 core 2.4Ghz AMD 
> Opteron system managed 8213 web requests per second, while a single 
> threaded version managed 3353. This compares with Django at 2223 requests 
> per second, Web.py at 2066 and CherryPy at 785."""

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server

http://www.apparatusproject.org/blog/2009/09/twisted-web-vs-tornado-performance-test/

http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/09/what-i-wish-tornado-were.html

http://dustin.github.com/2009/09/12/tornado.html

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