[Python-ideas] Async API: some code to review

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:24:23 -0700
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The difference in speed between AF_INET sockets and pipes on Windows is much
> > bigger than the difference between AF_INET sockets and pipes on Unix.
> >
> > (Who knows, maybe it is just my firewall which is causing the slowdown...)
> 
> Here's another unscientific benchmark: I wrote a stupid "http" server
> (stupider than echosvr.py actually) that accepts HTTP requests and
> responds with the shortest possible "200 Ok" response. This should
> provide an adequate benchmark of how fast the event loop, scheduler,
> and transport are at accepting and closing connections (and reading
> and writing small amounts). On my linux box at work, over localhost,
> it seems I can handle 10K requests (sent using 'ab' over localhost) in
> 1.6 seconds. Is that good or bad? The box has insane amounts of memory
> and 12 cores (?) and rates at around 115K pystones.

It sounds both good and useless to me :)

Regards

Antoine.