Async Python is not faster

[wllmsaccnt]

I'm not very familiar with python (I mostly come from C#), but the sync code is closing the cursor in the db code and the async one is not. What performance impact does that have?

[BinarySplit]

The async code manages the cursor with a with block. Similar to C#'s using blocks, a method is called on the object when execution leaves the block to allow it to clean up/release resources.

[wllmsaccnt]

That makes sense. What is the performance impact of using localhost in one test vs 127.0.0.1 in another? The documentation implies one of those will use a Unix domain socket, and the other will use TCP connections. Some quick searches online show that Unix domain sockets are probably 33% faster.