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A screamingly fast, ultra-lightweight WSGI server for CPython 2 and CPython 3, written in C using Marc Lehmann's high performance libev event loop and Ryan Dahl's http-parser.

Why It's Cool bjoern is the fastest, smallest and most lightweight WSGI server out there, featuring

~ 1000 lines of C code Memory footprint ~ 600KB Python 2 and Python 3 support (thanks @yanghao!) Single-threaded and without coroutines or other crap Can bind to TCP host:port addresses and Unix sockets (thanks @k3d3!) Full persistent connection ("keep-alive") support in both HTTP/1.0 and 1.1, including support for HTTP/1.1 chunked responses