Could you explain to the layman how this compares to the web server that ships with Tornado? I mean more in terms of usecases rather than performance. Also, the

Could you explain to the layman how this compares to the web server that ships with Tornado? I mean more in terms of usecases rather than performance. Also, the entire Tornado stack is written to be async and non-blocking. If one was to use something like plain vanilla PHP behind your nginx module, would one get the same result? Cheers.