Re:Uvloop: Fast Python networking
by danappelxx on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:06AM
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Yes, but JavaScript is still a dynamic, garbage collected language.
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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).