> I notice that lots of the medium-largish sites (from hobbyist BBS's to > sites like Slashdot, Wikipedia, etc.) built using this approach are > painfully slow even using seriously powerful server hardware.
Slow is such an ambiguous term. Do you mean the pages are slow to render in a browser, or slow to be fetched from the server, or the server is slow to respond to requests? What is slow? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list