Hi Jeffery, For restrictions, you are right. VM-based backends have only fewer restrictions than the traditional App Engine backends. Currently there's no public documentation. I hope these bullet points help you understanding the difference.
- take advantage of higher CPU and memory - rely on longer-lived processes - utilize a local filesystem - communicate via native network stacks - execute external processes - access the entire JRE - upload arbitrary Python extensions On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jeffery Fernandez < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Takashi, > > Could you explain the differences between appengine backends and VM > backends? I am assuming VM backends don't have many restrictions as what > appengine does? Could you point me to some documentation or comparison > list? Thanks > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Takashi Matsuo <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hi Marcel, >> >> Currently VM-based backends support Java and Python2.7. >> I'd appreciate it if you could file issues for supporting PHP and Go at: >> >> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list?can=2&q=Component%3DVMRuntime >> >> I'd like to know how many people have interests in it. >> >> Thanks for asking! >> >> -- Takashi >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Marcel Manz <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Will those VM-based backends support all runtimes? So Java, Python and >>> PHP? >>> >>> -- Marcel >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Takashi Matsuo | Developers Programs Engineer | [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Mobile: +61 430 534 464 > Home: +61 3 9764 4439 > Work: +61 3 9723 9399 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Takashi Matsuo | Developers Programs Engineer | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
