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An interesting deep dive on why this is the case (from 2015), in case anyone wants to know more: http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-and-

• tomchristie 9y ago
  One thing I've never been able to reconcile is Mike Bayer's article there, set against Yury Selivanov's reported results for `asyncpg`, which at least as they're presented do indicate a significant difference in throughput. https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg They're both incredibly experienced developers, and I don't have any good steer on the discrepancy. Would love to see some independent benchmarking on a typical use case to get a clearer picture on how valuable (or not) asyncio is for high-throughput database operations.