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eventlet vs greenlet

A side-by-side look at eventlet and greenlet. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

eventlet

eventlet

Development

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows developers to easily write highly scalable servers. It uses green threads to provide asynchronous I/O without having to deal with callback functions or program complexity.

pythonnetworkingconcurrencyasynchronousgreen-threads
greenlet

greenlet

Development

Greenlet is a lightweight concurrency library for Python that allows users to switch between several green threads (coroutines) in a similar way to yield statements. It enables non-blocking cooperative multitasking in Python programs.

concurrencycoroutinesmultitasking

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