This is disingenuous since we’re not even looking at the same kind of TCP connection and request handling (using persistent connections in Python typically spee

This is disingenuous since we’re not even looking at the same kind of TCP connection and request handling (using persistent connections in Python typically speeds things up, going async reduces concurrency overheads, etc.). But of course iteration through any kind of dataset to get a reply would take longer in Python as well when compared to C.