twisted much?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Magnus Therning wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:32:24PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
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|>(Maybe some of the Canonical people have an opinion on this.)
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|>To get really good HTTP download performance it seems that we need to
|>do parallel/overlapped downloads.

Yes, I think so, at least as a lowest-common-denominator.  Pipeline
support isn't universal, but I don't know how widely it is supported.
Maybe we can find out from Netcraft?

| There are a few other packages that provide asynchronous communication
| besides Twisted:
|
|  http://squirl.nightmare.com/medusa/
|  asyncore (part of the Python distro)

Cool.  This looks more like the scale we're looking for-- the
documentation isn't overwhelming, and it knows it's a library, not a
framework.  It looks like this is the basis for the http client Fredrik
Lundh offers.

Aaron
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