[Animats]

It would be interesting to compare this Python approach with a Go goroutine approach. The main question is whether Go's libraries handle massive numbers of connections well. Since Google wrote Go to be used internally, they probably do.

[mseri]

Or Erlang, or rust

[logn]

Or Java. Right now I have a web driver that uses standard Java classes for requests but I wonder if NIO would offer significantly better performance.