Andrew Warkentin wrote: > I am going to write a general-purpose modular proxy in Python. It > will consist of a simple core and several modules for things like > filtering and caching. I am not sure whether it is better to use > multithreading, or to use an event-driven networking library like > Twisted or Medusa/ Asyncore. Which would be the better > architecture to use?
I'd definitely use an event-driven approach with Twisted. Generally, multithreading is less performant than multiplexing. High performance servers mostly use a combination of both, though. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #306: CPU-angle has to be adjusted because of vibrations coming from the nearby road -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
