"Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > If I have understood correctly, then is there any benefit at all in my going > async? I might as well just stick with threads for the request handling as > well as the database handling.
1. There is a scalability issue with threads, particularly if you don't have enough RAM or use a 32 bit system. 2. Earlier Linux kernels did not perform well if they had to schedule 10,000 threads. 3. It is nice to be able to abort a read or write that hangs (for whatever reason). Killing a thread with pthread_cancel or TerminateThread is not recommended. Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
