Here's a blog post from several months ago: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers Gevent uses the h

Here's a blog post from several months ago: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers Gevent uses the http server built into libevent, which is written in C, so it's no surprise that it is fast.