> You could be easily reading at 1GB+/sec and pushing 10-20Gbps to NICs, depending on the hardware. Python is easily able to push this much data but I have the

> You could be easily reading at 1GB+/sec and pushing 10-20Gbps to NICs, depending on the hardware. Python is easily able to push this much data but I have the impression that the problem are the performance-hogging libraries. In my case I had to write my own HTTP client implementation for Python to get such speeds. Python is not the problem you just need to avoid unnecessary LoCs.