Beating FastAPI

One thing which Go does a lot better than Python is single binary deployments. As an experiment I thought, why not have a way to package up Go as part of a Python package, similar to maturin - and also have a way to spin up a Python webserver that is packaged as a Go binary.

The results were definitely interesting:

• Go binary had 9x more throughput than stdlib Python’s http library, and ~5x more throughput than FastAPI
• Idle memroy usage was `3x higher for FastAPI, and the peak memory usage was ~2x higher than Go binary

Of course the pocket python restriction may be too much for more complex applications.

Next Steps

Test it out on other patterns and setups, such as with background tasks or with more concurrency to see the ablations

I also need to change the name, since goforge is already taken on PyPI.

Edit

Because goforge was already a taken name, I have changed it to gofre. In particular I have added benchmarks for web development which appear to be broadly promising. There are more interesting extensions that we can use, one of them is to take the mypyc approach of automatically creating C extensions off a typed subset of the code. Hopefully we can make it more ergonomic since mypyc doesn’t seem to be widely used. Ideally something that does:

1gofre compile /path/to/file.py  # or equivalent

which will then build appropriate bindings that are optimised assuming typing checks are met (use ty for this)