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gevent vs LiteSpeed: What are the differences?
What is gevent? Coroutine network library for Python. It is a coroutine -based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of the libev or libuv event loop.
What is LiteSpeed? *A drop-in Apache replacement and the leading high-performance, high-scalability server *. It is a drop-in Apache replacement and the leading high-performance, high-scalability server. You can replace your existing Apache server with it without changing your configuration or operating system details. As a drop-in replacement, it allows you to quickly eliminate Apache bottlenecks in 15 minutes with zero downtime.
gevent and LiteSpeed can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Some of the features offered by gevent are:
- Fast event loop based on libev or libuv
- Lightweight execution units based on greenlets
- API that re-uses concepts from the Python standard library (for examples there are events and queues)
On the other hand, LiteSpeed provides the following key features:
- Event Driven Architecture
- Apache Drop-In Replacement
- HTTP/2 & QUIC Support
Cons of gevent
- Not native1