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		ivoras on Jan 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework Wow, is Python3 still that much slower than Python2?

agentultra on Jan 5, 2015 [–]

iirc, Python 3.4 saw a strong leap in performance largely related to unicode. Could be wrong but the earlier versions of Python 3 did suffer some slow down.

cbsmith on Jan 5, 2015 | [–]

It also helps that Python2 based web frameworks play a bit fast & loose with the odd ambiguities in the HTTP protocol that Python3 won't let you get away with.

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