"OkaMthembo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I need to write an ad-serving application and i'm > using Win XP as my dev platform.
The real issue is what are you using for your deployment platform,. If its Win XP then Python is probably fast enough since XP cannot handle huge volumes anyway. If its enterprise scale Windows or some other OS then there are other questions to ask. > i wonder if Python would have the performance or > scale fast enough to a large user base. Define large. Its not normally the number of users that matters but thenumber of concurrent users. Google has probably 10's of millions of users but less than a million at any one time. Are we talking google sizes? > Python and Java, but Jython only supports Python 2.2 Jython will not be significantly faster than Python. And unless you have a good optimising/JIT compiler neither will Java IMHO. But Python 2.2 would be adequate to write a server anyhow so you just lose a few of the latest bells and whistles, no big loss. Given the choice between Python 2.2. and Java 5 I know which I'd prefer... Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
