Top Python libraries of 2016
<i>"According to the Sanic author’s benchmark, uvloop could power this beast to handle more than 33k requests/s which is just insane (and faster than node.js)."</i><p>I keep looking for excuses to focus on Python instead of Go and claims like this one make me happy. However, when I check the benchmarks I get confused:<p><a href="http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=ph&test=fortune&b=2&s=1&l=4ft3pb" rel="nofollow">http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=p...</a><p>Of course this looks amazing:<p><a href="https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/" rel="nofollow">https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/</a><p>But, even if in the request/second area Python might be doing great now, won't there be problem down the line with the GIL? That is, isn't async/await an island of good performance?