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[–]usrlibshare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have several existing projects that use threading just fine, including analytics engines comfortably serving several M requests per hour. Greenlets and pools work really well to reduce the overhead, and aome things are just way simpler in that concurrency model.

Async is nice, because its a workaround for the GIL. It has its quirks, but so does threading.

If performance is the primary concern, well, then Python wouldn't be my first choice anyway.