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Re: which async framework?

From Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Subject Re: which async framework?
Date 2014-03-11 16:01 +0000
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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).

Regards

Antoine.

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Re: which async framework? Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2014-03-11 16:01 +0000
  Re: which async framework? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 16:52 +0000
    Re: which async framework? jkn <jkn_gg@nicorp.f9.co.uk> - 2014-03-11 10:13 -0700
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