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Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2014-03-11, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> Chris Withers <chris <at> simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> > 
>>> > I see python now has a plethora of async frameworks and I need to try
>>> > and pick one to use from:
>>> > 
>>> > - asyncio/tulip
>>> > - tornado
>>> > - twisted
>>> 
>>> I'd go for using iocp, epoll and kqueue/kevent directly. Why bother to
>>> learn a framework? You will find epoll and kqueue/kevent in the select
>>> module and iocp in pywin32.
>>
>> Yes, why use a library when you can rewrite it all yourself?
>> Actually, you should probably issue system calls to the kernel directly,
>> the libc is overrated (as is portability, I suppose).
> 
> And don't bother with device drivers for the network adapters either.
> Just map their PCI regions in to user-space and twiddle the reigisters
> directly!  ;)
> 
> [I do that when testing PCI boards with C code, and one of these days
> I'm going to figure out how to do it with Python.]
> 

Use numpy with mmap