At 12:35 AM 11/23/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >For this, CGI scripts come to mind. Many people use them, and they >are often short-running, and they often get invoked frequently.
I find that surprising, since I only use CGI if I'm not concerned about the start time. It's not like there aren't dozens of "long-running process" solutions for Python web apps including mod_python, FastCGI, SCGI, Twisted, and even ReadyExec, to fit almost every conceivable need. And since the advent of WSGI, more frameworks can be used with more of those deployment options than ever before. I guess I can imagine the extra millisecond or two pushing a borderline case over from "making do with CGI" to "need an LRP solution", but I'd also think that anybody with that kind of a situation would already know it. I could be wrong of course, and I'm not arguing that it's *not* a possible issue for some people, I'm just saying why it didn't occur to me as a use case for needing faster startup. It also seems strange to me to think the import time (especially import time of non-existent modules) would be a significant factor compared to the actual request handling time. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
