I believe the release of Python 2.7 will bring multithreading later this year. To compensate for it's lack right now, the GAE team is planning to double the number of Python instances you get and cut their prices and capacities in half.
On May 18, 12:14 pm, "Raymond C." <[email protected]> wrote: > The original design of AppEngine is pay for what you use. Obviously the new > pricing model (min 15 min instance charge, "low latency over resources > usage") is going after the "pay for the machines you use" model. > > If this is the case, it is so stupid to me that the original language of the > choice of AppEngine (python) is single threaded on AppEngine. Google should > also update their platform alongside with the new pricing so we could make > full use of the machine resources. Non-blocking server like tornado > (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) or node.js have proven that a single machine > can do a lot of thing. I hate to see the new pricing goes into effect > without platform update that let us make us of the "machines" that we are > paying for. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
