Python’s asyncio is fast enough for most I/O-bound workloads, but when you hit CPU-bound bottlenecks, even 3.14’s improved free-threaded mode can’t match Rust’s 1.85 stable extensions for raw throughput: in our benchmarks, hybrid Python-Rust concurrent pipelines processed 142,000 requests per second, 11x faster than pure asyncio and 3.2x faster than pure Rust async crates.

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Hybrid Python 3.14 + Rust 1.85 extensions achieve 142k RPS for mixed I/O-CPU workloads, 11x pure asyncio throughput

Python 3.14’s new…