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Some of the most popular Python web frameworks have been tested with a simple “hello world” application in order to compare performance against Cyclone.
All the tests were performed using ApacheBench (ab -n 100000 -c 25 http://host). Cyclone, Tornado and TwistedWeb were proxied by nginx, 1 single-threaded frontend each. Django was also proxied by nginx, with a multithreaded frontend via FastCGI. And, web.py was proxied by lighttpd, 25 frontends, WSGI.
Not as fast as Tornado, because Twisted’s core I/O isn’t as fast as Tornado’s. However, Cyclone is faster than all the others, including TwistedWeb (haven’t tried TwistedWeb2 yet).