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Re: Benefits of asyncio

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Date 2014-06-03 21:57 +1000
Subject Re: Benefits of asyncio
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.10617.1401796684.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> wrote:
> On 06/03/14 12:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Write me a purely nonblocking
>> web site concept that can handle a million concurrent connections,
>> where each one requires one query against the database, and one in a
>> hundred of them require five queries which happen atomically.
>
>
> I don't see why that can't be done. Twisted has everyting I can think of
> except database bits (adb runs on threads), and I got txpostgres[1]
> running in production, it seems quite robust so far. what else are we
> missing?
>
> [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txpostgres

I never said it can't be done. My objection was to Marko's reiterated
statement that asynchronous coding is somehow massively cleaner than
threading; my argument is that threading is often significantly
cleaner than async, and that at worst, they're about the same (because
they're dealing with exactly the same problems).

ChrisA

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Benefits of asyncio Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 10:40 -0700
  Re: Benefits of asyncio Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 12:37 -0600
  Re: Benefits of asyncio Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-02 16:07 -0400
    Re: Benefits of asyncio Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-06-02 16:19 -0400
    Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-02 23:28 +0300
      Re: Benefits of asyncio Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-02 13:45 -0700
        Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 07:49 +1000
        Re: Benefits of asyncio Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-02 21:51 -0400
        Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 09:36 +0300
          Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 18:47 +1000
            Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 12:10 +0300
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 19:30 +1000
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 13:08 +0300
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 20:23 +1000
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 14:12 +0300
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-04 00:52 -0700
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-06-03 14:05 +0300
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 21:57 +1000
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-06-04 08:10 +0300
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 17:30 +1000
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-04 00:48 -0700
          Re: Benefits of asyncio "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-06-03 13:09 +0200
          Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 22:01 +1000
            Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 16:05 +0300
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 23:31 +1000
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 16:42 +0300
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 23:49 +1000
                Re: Benefits of asyncio Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-03 19:18 +0300
              Re: Benefits of asyncio Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-06-03 11:40 -0400
        Re: Benefits of asyncio Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 11:31 +0300
  Re: Benefits of asyncio Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-06-03 00:07 +0300
  Re: Benefits of asyncio Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 21:54 -0700

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