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Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking by Sean1708 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:44AM (#11626637)
> It seems to me, then, that this isn't really a fair comparison to node, is it?

Isn't node written in C?

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Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking by danappelxx on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:06AM (#11628843)
Yes, but JavaScript is still a dynamic, garbage collected language.
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Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking by 1st1 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:13PM (#11629832)
Most of nodejs internals are in C++ on top of libuv. Only a thin layer of JS interfaces wrap that.

Python is also a dynamic, GCed language. uvloop is built with Cython, which uses the Python object model (and all of its overhead!), and CPython C-API extensively (so it's slower than a pure C program using libuv).

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