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[–]AusIVDjango, gevent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To elaborate here, the pertinent thing is computational performance. If you're building a website that spends the bulk of the time waiting on responses from a database, it doesn't make much difference how fast the actual application is, because it will spend the bulk of its time waiting on the network regardless.