title: Django Gunicorn Long Polling
body: <p>Is using Django with gunicorn is considered to be a replacement for using evented/async servers like Tornado, Node.js, and similar ? Additionally, Will that be helpful in handling long-polling/cometed services?</p>
  
  <p>Finally, is Gunicorn only replacing the memory consuming Apache threads (in case of Apache/mod-wsgi) with lightweight threads, or there are an additional benefits?</p>