When to use Tornado, when to use Twisted / Cyclone / GEvent / other

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Chapters
00:00 Question
00:42 Accepted answer (Score 231)
04:56 Answer 2 (Score 61)
07:35 Answer 3 (Score 49)
10:33 Answer 4 (Score 16)
13:13 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1394...

Accepted answer links:
[Django]: https://www.djangoproject.com/
[Flask]: http://flask.pocoo.org/
[Twisted]: https://twistedmatrix.com/
[Tornado]: http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/
[Cyclone]: http://cyclone.io/
[Pyramid]: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/...
http://dhilipsiva.com/2013/05/19/python-...

Answer 2 links:
[somewhat biased]: http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com
[wrong]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_a...
[similar questions]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4384...
[speed.twistedmatrix.com]: http://speed.twistedmatrix.com
[to be monitored by PyPy's similar site]: http://speed.pypy.org
[built-in support for local multi-processing]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[a third-party add-on for Tornado]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tornado_subp.../
[Twisted has added features]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/56...
[well-integrated]: http://amp-protocol.net
["native"]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[Lots of people]: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Proje...
[very useful]: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Succe...
[So much so that many of them have extended it and made their extensions available to you.]: https://launchpad.net/tx
[good support for test-driven development]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[TCP]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[clients]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[transport layer security]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[SSH]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[IMAP4, ESMTP, POP3]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[DNS]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[HTTP]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...
[IRC, XMPP, OSCAR, MSN]: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/curr...

Answer 3 links:
http://cyclone.io
[performance]: https://web.archive.org/web/201409160948...
[There are 71]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:actio
https://docs.python.org/dev/library/asyn...
[Tornado - the best Python web framework]: http://rz.scale-it.pl/2013/01/25/tornado...

Answer 4 links:
https://github.com/jyio/geventreactor

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