Async Client with 1K connections?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Feb 11 14:00:55 EST 2004


In article <zeWdnXYoFaHsSbTd4p2dnA at comcast.com>,
William Chang <williamichang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>One of the intended uses is indeed a next-gen web spider.  I did the
>math, and yes I will need about 10 cutting-edge PCs to spider like
>you-know-who.  

Note that while you-know-who makes extensive use of Python, I don't
think they're using it for spidering/searching.  I do have some
background writing a spider in Python, using Verity's engine for
indexing/retrieval, but we were using threading rather than
asyncore-style operations.
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