Web api benchmarking: Python (Flask) vs Rust (actix-web)

#rustlang #benchmarking

[skidipap]

ex python dev here, i think for python you should running with Gunicorn and set workers to 4 or whatever u want. for most cases Flask run is use for development only

[michasiwik]

Do you know that in each python request you create your UsersData and you do same with Rust. Also there are much faster python rest api libs like for example fastapi

[Fozzedout]

That's not a benchmark. It's a bloodbath. 🤣

In all seriousness, I think this is due to the synchronous nature - akin to php.
I think the Rust Rocket 0.4 (0.5 is async) would also be comparable as that uses the synchronous methods.