Recommendation for small, fast, Python based web server
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Dec 25 13:38:19 EST 2009
In article <mailman.1720.1260539582.2873.python-list at python.org>,
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
>Apparently you have debugged your speed issue so I suppose you don't have
>performance problems anymore. Do note, however, that Python is generally
>not as fast as C -- especially for low-level stuff -- and a Python Web
>server will probably serve around 10x less requests per second than a C
>Web server like Apache (this will still give you hundreds of simple
>requests per second on a modern machine).
For static pages or dynamic pages? Once you get into dynamic pages, I
sincerely doubt that the smaller Apache overhead makes lots of
difference.
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