When to monkey patch?

[river-walras]

I’d like to ask if using aiofastnet will make picows run faster, since I’ve noticed that uvloop doesn’t seem to provide a significant performance boost in Python 3.14.

[tarasko]

picows use it already directly by default, without monkey patching.

[river-walras]

picows use it already directly by default, without monkey patching.

Does this also improve the speed of HTTP requests sent via aiohttp?

[tarasko]

Ah sorry, for aiohttp to use aiofastnet, you indeed need to monkey-patch

So if you monkey patch:
picows uses aiofastnet directly
aiohttp uses aiofastnet through monkey-patch

Without monkey patching:
picows still uses aiofastnet directly
aiohttp uses native loop.create_connection and other functions.

[tarasko]

aiohttp has just merged direct use of aiofastnet.

Since 3.15 you won't need to monkey patch for aiohttp, aiofastnet will always be used directly if installed and now aiohttp[speedups] include aiofastnet as well.