Re:Async Python is not faster
by supermatt on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:47AM
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Aren't you still capping the throughput by the query rate of your connection pool though? By limiting that, you are limiting the application as a whole - i.e. your benchmark is bound by the speed of your database, and has (almost) nothing to do with the performance of a specific python implementation.
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Only if there are spare resources left to saturate the connection pools, which didn't seem to be the case.
If the system as a whole is well saturated, and the python processes dominate the system load with a DB load proportional to the requests served, then I don't think we would hit any external bottlenecks.
The benchmarks performed are not that great (e.g., virtualized, same machine for all components, etc.), but I don't think the errors are enough to throw off the result. Note, of course, that such results are not universal, and some loads might perform better async.
Re:Async Python is not faster
by a1a1a1a1a1a1 on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:59AM
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If the benchmark is bound by the database speed, wouldn't the expected result be that all implementations returned roughly the same number of requests per second?