Improving interpreter startup speed

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Wed Oct 29 08:02:23 EDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Lie <Lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2:36 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>> It's not optimal but it is very common (CGI for example).
>
> CGI? When you're talking about CGI, network traffic is simply the
> biggest bottleneck, not something like python interpreter startup
> time. Also, welcome to the 21st century, where CGI is considered as an
> outdated protocol.

That's right. That's why we have WSGI. That's
why we built mod_wsgi for Apache. Hell taht's
why we actually have really nice Web Frameworks
such as: CherryPy, Pylons, Paste, etc. They
perform pretty damn well!

--JamesMills

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