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The built-in event loop has meh performance, would love to see the benchmarks re-run using libuv - that would help close some of the gap.

They max out the speed with tests. It does use libuv. Uvicorn is the indicator as it uses libuv underneath.

If you heard of Gunicorn, Uvicorn is the version of Gunicorn with libUV, hence the name.

Hi, I am the author of the above article. Libuv was used - for example by the uvicorn-based versions.