It's still true -- I recommend looking at some comparisons. Worker-thread based http servers consistently have worse performance at handling a large number of c

It's still true -- I recommend looking at some comparisons. Worker-thread based http servers consistently have worse performance at handling a large number of connections, and the error rate for those (simply) using threads is also higher at large number of connections, For example, see this benchmark of Python web servers: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers