[Tutor] Using jon.fcgi to speed up subsequent invocations

[Jonathan Hayward http://JonathansCorner.com]

I have a search script that spends 90+% of its time in initialization. 
One initialisation gets everything ready for multiple searches, so it 
should speed up with fast cgi. I converted, or tried to convert it, to 
jon.fcgi to use Fast CGI.

As is, I can't tell a performance difference. If I load the larger 
dataset, a search takes ~20 seconds with or without fcgi. Do I need to 
tell Apache something different to use it as a fast CGI script (what's 
the URL to the relevant HOWTO)? Here are relevant snippets of my script:

import jon.cgi as cgi
import jon.fcgi as fcgi

class Handler(cgi.Handler):
   def process(self, request):
       multitasking.get_thread_specific_storage()["handler"] = 
request.params
       request.set_header("Content-Type", "text/html")
       request.write(get_output())

if __name__ == "__main__":
   init() # This is the really slow invocation that should only be 
needed once.
   fcgi.Server({fcgi.FCGI_RESPONDER: Handler}, 0, None, fcgi.Request, 
0).run()

Thanks,

-- 
++ Jonathan Hayward, jonathan.hayward at pobox.com
** To see an award-winning website with stories, essays, artwork,
** games, and a four-dimensional maze, why not visit my home page?
** All of this is waiting for you at http://JonathansCorner.com