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Use uvloop for async event loop
From https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop:
uvloop is a fast, drop-in replacement of the built-in asyncio event loop. uvloop is implemented in Cython and uses libuv under the hood.
Hard to argue with 2x speedup for a drop-in replacement. Curious to see whether that holds up.
There's a good chance we're already using it implicitly. I just wanted to test this by making it explicit.
How well does this combine with customers of our library who use asyncio? Should there maybe be an escape hatch?
@technillogue pointed out that uvloop was already added to the async branch via httpx. Uvicorn advertises that the default "auto" loop setting selects uvloop when available, and I don't see any evidence to the contrary.
@yorickvP That's a good callout, but I don't anticipate a problem. The vast majority of consumers will run cog.http as a self-contained program, and anyone consuming as a library could pretty easily swap out their preferred event loop as desired.
The reason I ask is that, with async cog, we saw people trying to combine it with their own event loops in their own threads, and it took a bit of hacking to make that work.
Reopening to apply changes to main, which doesn't (yet) have httpx dependency.