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Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking by RedCrowbar on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:01AM (#11627705)
> This isn't a fair comparison. the "HTTP server" presented isn't doing any checks / validation that a typical web server does.

How so? It uses a binding to http-parser, just like nodejs.

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Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking by halayli on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:04PM (#11630802)
Parsing is just a small part of an http server. You can check the links I posted to see how much work is involved in validating http headers (after parsing), and creating http responses.
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