<span style="font-weight: bold;">What kind of low-level socket and threading code is necessary for a db </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> intensive site such as yahoo. How do we use it from python? does </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> anyone have experience using it</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"> <br><br style="font-style: italic;"><a style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank" href="http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html">http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br style="font-style: italic;"> <div id="qhide_57251" style="display: block; font-style: italic;" class="qt">>From moving to python by the founders of reddit <br> <br></div><span style="font-style: italic;">Because of the low-level socket and threading code we had to write, </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
reddit would not run on my Mac, and I was always tethered to our </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> FreeBSD development server. Not being able to program offline is a </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> pain. </span><br> <br><span style="font-weight: bold;">I would imagine that they aren't just using a database. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> most of the "low level socket stuff" I've seen is about setting </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> timeouts and doing Async IO. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"> <br><p> 
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