On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Tycon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I guess that means routes can be taken out if I remove the routes
>> middleware and use my own url_for (which I was just about ready to
>> do).
>> So in your assessment a simple hello world on pylons using cherrypy
>> instead of paster (that is my current config) is going to be as fast
>> as just as an equivalent cherrypy (or pretty close, but not twice as
>> slow) ?
>
> There's a category error here.
>
> There are a few Paste-Deploy-compatible web servers.  paste.httpserver and
> CherryPy's servers are two examples (the two most popular for Pylons
> users).  There's also the flup servers (which aren't http), Spawning, and...
> some other ones I can't remember now.  Whether you choose paste.httpserver
> or CherryPy's server is up to you, it doesn't affect any other choice.  They
> act almost identically (CherryPy is somewhat faster, paste.httpserver has
> some debugging tools... maybe there's some HTTP/1.1 features that one
> supports that the other doesn't, but I haven't kept track).
>
> Paste Deploy is a configuration setup to glue together middleware and other
> components into a single http-serving-wsgi-application.  It also lets you
> select a web server.
>
> paster serve takes the Paste Deploy configuration and actually runs it.
> It's kind of like an app server, but a very small app server.
>
> There's not really any runtime over head to Paste Deploy and paster serve --
> they just glue things together, but by the time you are actually serving
> HTTP they are finished with their jobs.
>

hi Ian, is this explanation somewhere in pythonpaste? or somewhere
else? I see this being asked a lot in several places (irc, other
mailing lists,etc) I'll like to have a link to point to.

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