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Added a basic gevent example here that is apparently about 10% better than the http.go wrt transaction rate.

https://github.com/traviscline/web_bench

(notice: I realize this is a highly synthetic benchmark and reading siege results like this is not good benchmarking)

It's too bad the author didn't include gevent in the post, as it seems to be the fastest way to do concurrency with python (see http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers). I'm surprised it was faster than the Go example. I wonder if a Cython-based handler would take it even further...

I don't see the use of regexp in gvent.py.

Good call, added it, initial run didn't show a huge difference.

edit: here are numbers from a few runs: gvent,http.go 361.43,386.68 354.69,397.15 388.96,377.69 424.81,430.34

http.go averaged 26% utilization gvent.py averaged 15% utilization

I'm embarrassed posting this because of how grossly unscientific this is..

Not quite as fast as I thought initially but likely faster than the other python competitors.

Good. Next, there's a check for "GET" method and if request contains parameters at all (which returns 404 if not) in the Go version. Though, I don't think it will make a big difference.

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