On: Asynchronous Programming in Python: Asyncio

[deckiedan]

For an instant latency boost, you can also pop the sqlite db directory on to a memory tmpfs.

[makmanalp → deckiedan]

I've always wondered about this: doesn't the OS read buffer pretty much keep the whole thing in memory anyway, if you have memory to spare? Does it make that much of a difference?

[xapata → makmanalp]

It's not the reads but the writes that'll get you. Reads are easy to scale.