FWIW: There is a new set of async / await bits in CPython 3.5 that are allowing some really interesting new performance profiles. http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-b

FWIW: There is a new set of async / await bits in CPython 3.5 that are allowing some really interesting new performance profiles. http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ This is almost exactly on par with golang's net/http for a simple echo server, yet it is written in python.