[joamag]

We really wanted to create a pure non blocking async IO network library in pure Python without any dependencies. On top of that we also wanted to prove that it's possible to archive 200K HTTP req/s in Python using PyPy with JIT.

[webmaven]

That's an impressive benchmark. On what hardware is it achieved?

[gcandal]

While I'm not sure what hardware was used, if you want to try it yourself the benchmark is pretty easily reproducible [1].

[1] https://github.com/hivesolutions/netius/blob/c431b9c258baa0b...