diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/gevent/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/gevent/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/gevent/README b/libraries/gevent/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1cb24df410 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/gevent/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet +to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of the libev event loop. + +Features include: + - Fast event loop based on libev (epoll on Linux, kqueue on FreeBSD). + - Lightweight execution units based on greenlet. + - API that re-uses concepts from the Python standard library + (for example there are Events and Queues). + - Cooperative sockets with SSL support ยป + - DNS queries performed through threadpool or c-ares. + - Monkey patching utility to get 3rd party modules to become + cooperative |