It'd be great if someone could explain to me why python with WSGI is "slower" than C# - I know C# is compiled to bytecode, but from what I've seen, websites are slow because of their I/O and database access, as opposed to the actual language processing things. Especially when some WSGI servers have insane performance in raw request handling (and can be proxied to via nginx). Where is it that C# can actually draw the advantages?