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24 alternatives to A tiny library for managing blocking code in Tornado

A declarative library to make blocking code play nicely with the tornado ioloop - bobpoekert/tornado-threadpool

This library helps developers run blocking code alongside Tornado's asynchronous event loop without freezing the application. It provides a declarative approach to offload CPU-intensive or I/O-blocking operations to a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A tiny library for managing blocking code in Tornado launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, this is Will and David from Fortress (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998). We use a lot of async Rust internally, and created this library out of a need for an async-aware concurrent hashmap since there weren’t many available in the Rust ecosystem. Whirlwind is a sharded HashMap with a fully asynchronous API. Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock. It has a similar design and performance characteristics to dashmap, but seems to perform better in read-heavy workloads with tokio's…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects. - GitHub - rochus-keller/CspChan: A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tornado HTTP/2 Client. Contribute to vladmunteanu/th2c development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project explores the integration of multithreading into the asyncio event loop in Python. While this was initially built with enhancing CPU utilization for FastAPI servers in mind, the approach can be used with more general async programs too. If you’re interested in diving deeper into the details, I’ve written a blog post about it here: https://www.neilbotelho.com/blog/multithreaded-async.html

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN ! Alex here. I'm excited to show you Asyncpal (https://github.com/pyrustic/asyncpal), a Python library for parallelism [1] and preemptive concurrency [2] tailored for sporadic workloads [3]. I've been working on a private project where it would be convenient to have asynchronous versions of some operations without using `async/await` [4]. Besides `async/await`, which represents cooperative concurrency via the `asyncio` package, Python also provides preemptive concurrency through its `threading` package. Additionally, the `concurrent.futures` package builds…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Utility function to parallelise pipelines of Python asyncio iterators/generators - michalc/asyncio-buffered-pipeline

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    utility library for async iterable iterators. Contribute to crcn/mesh.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly - lunatic-solutions/lunatic

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Concurrency library for C (coroutines). Contribute to tidwall/neco development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimal library for building scalable TCP servers in Erlang - sinasamavati/condor

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Non-preemptive Thread Hierarchy Manager. Contribute to gueststar/nthm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A framework based on tornado for easier development, scaling up and maintenance - wecatch/app-turbo

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Like the Graph but with Python

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Real Goroutines for Python 3.13t+ free-threaded. Contribute to robertsdotpm/runloom development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Python ports of useful syscalls, using asynchronous I/O. - zacharyvoase/teena

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project is inspired by some of the asserts in Unreal engine. Due to reliance on core_intrinsics it is necessary to develop using nightly Rust, but there are stubs in place so a production build will not require nightly. I recently released version 0.2 which includes no_std support and adds optional log message arguments to the ensure macro.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Streams▲106

    Real-time blockchain data streaming made simple

    2024 · quicknode.com · its alternatives →

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    Asynchronous C networking library with HTTP server, WebSockets, reverse proxy, HTTP/2 gRPC client, TLS and event loop. - Softmotions/iwnet

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cross-language, zero-copy coroutine observability framework based on the cTP shared-memory protocol, utilizing lock-free ring buffers for ultra-low overhead state tracing. - lixiasky-back/coroTracer

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Micro event loop library to teach the basic concepts of python coroutines and how event loop libraries might be implemented - micro_events.py

    2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lunatic▲69

    Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly

    2021 · lunatic.solutions · its alternatives →

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    Single header stackful cross-platform coroutine library in pure C. - edubart/minicoro

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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