[distracteddev90]

The main premise in my comment is that the benchmarks do not resemble real world performance, and are therefore misleading.

The comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626762) further expands on why these kinds of benchmarks, although interesting, have no real value.

Each implementation does something wildly different and responds to different inputs with completely different outputs.

To put it metaphorically, if you put a car engine in two completely different chassis and then race them on a track, you aren't gaining any real insight into relative performance of the engine in the two vehicles.

Also, just to be clear, my qualms are with the benchmarks alone, I think the library is great! Thanks for all the hard work :)

[1st1]

I guess I look at the benchmarks in a bit different light.

These benchmarks are primarily comparing event loops and their performance. TCP benchmark is very fair, HTTP - maybe not so much. The point is to show that you can write super fast servers in Python too, just have a fast protocol parser.

As for the HTTP benchmarks, I plan to add more stuff to httptools and implement a complete HTTP protocol in it. Will rerun the benchmakrs, but I don't expect more than 20% performance drop.