[tyree731]

> Slow execution of pure python code - this is the ONLY area where you are perhaps correct... but compared to what?

Compared to… basically everything? Python’s performance is unacceptable, especially given that single threaded processor performance isn’t really improving any longer.

[whalesalad]

asyncio is quite fast, especially with libuv/uvloop

- https://github.com/libuv/libuv

- https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop