an event-driven networking framework supports TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, multicast, Unix sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others)
it is possible to execute Python code at speeds approaching that of fully compiled languages, by "specialization". The current prototype operates on i386-compatible processors and shows 2 to 100 times speed-ups, depending on code.