python suitability for large critical run forever apps

[Doug Fort]

Our website loadtesting application http://www.stressmy.com has backend

agents that 'run forever'. (Actually, we're doing frequent upgrades,

so most agents get restarted at least once a week, but we've

never had anything fail from memory or resource leaks).

I find multithreaded apps much easier to develop and debug in

Python than in C/C++ or Java.  However, I'm becoming convinced

that it's better to use select() than threads for waiting on I/O.

--
Doug Fort (dougfort at downright.com)
Senior Meat Manager
Downright Software LLC
http://www.dougfort.net


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