Benoit Chesneau 7818401182 Optimize ASGI protocol for 16x performance improvement
- Replace datetime.now() with time.monotonic() for request timing
- Add access_log_enabled property to skip log work when disabled
- Rewrite BodyReceiver with Future-based waiting (no create_task)
- Remove StreamReader for HTTP/1.1, use direct bytearray buffering
- Add BufferReader wrapper for FastAsyncRequest compatibility
- Use pre-cached chunk prefixes in _send_body()
- Convert async methods to sync where no await needed
- Batch response writes (headers + body in single write)

Performance: 4,200 -> 69,500 req/s
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Gunicorn

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Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly speedy.

New in v25: Per-app worker allocation for dirty arbiters, HTTP/2 support (beta)!

Quick Start

pip install gunicorn
gunicorn myapp:app --workers 4

For ASGI applications (FastAPI, Starlette):

gunicorn myapp:app --worker-class asgi

Features

  • WSGI support for Django, Flask, Pyramid, and any WSGI framework
  • ASGI support for FastAPI, Starlette, Quart
  • HTTP/2 support (beta) with multiplexed streams
  • Dirty Arbiters (beta) for heavy workloads (ML models, long-running tasks)
  • uWSGI binary protocol for nginx integration
  • Multiple worker types: sync, gthread, gevent, eventlet, asgi
  • Graceful worker process management
  • Compatible with Python 3.9+

Documentation

Full documentation at https://gunicorn.org

Community

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License

Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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