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This pure Python library claims quite fabulous performance: https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg

I believe it because that team have done lots of great stuff but I haven't used it, I just remembered thinking it was interesting the performance was so good. Not sure how related it is to running on the asyncio loop (or which loop they used for benchmarks).

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I'd assume that the benchmark is showcasing the gains of the async model, more than making a point that native python is faster than C. The issue is ultimately: how much of the functionality available through libpq is not yet backported to asyncpg (i imagine it's nonzero, but Idon'tknow the answer). Which is why the pragmatic in me still prefer a middle layer like libpq in between.

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