In Python i suspect you could use things like Twisted or Multiprocessing (module) here. In Perl there is AnyEvent and luckily CPAN already provides AnyEvent wr

In Python i suspect you could use things like Twisted or Multiprocessing (module) here. In Perl there is AnyEvent and luckily CPAN already provides AnyEvent wrappers around pretty much everything! ref: http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=AnyEvent%3A%3A%2A&complete=1 http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=AnyEvent... BTW, There is a (fledging but robust) port of Tornado to Perl: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tatsumaki/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tatsumaki/