2009
Tornado Web Server Documentation
Tornado comes with limited support for WSGI. However, since WSGI does not support non-blocking requests, you cannot use any of the asynchronous/non-blocking features of Tornado in your application if you choose to use WSGI instead of Tornado's HTTP server. Some of the features that are not available in WSGI applications: @tornado.web.asynchronous, the httpclient module, and the auth module.
in other words: WSGI sucks
2008
Erlang Community - A fast web server demonstrating some undocumented Erlang features - Trapexit
by 1 otherThis HOWTO describes a web server written for the day when even Yaws is not quick enough.
Comet Daily » Blog Archive » 20,000 Reasons Why Comet Scales
After some recent optimizations, the Dojo Cometd implementation of the Bayeux protocol running on the Jetty web server can now handle up to 20,000 simultaneous users per server while maintaining sub-second latency.
impressive numbers. Does the Twisted one can beat that?