this is based on a post by a previous user. I did not check. I believe only CPython closes files automatically when they go out of scope. Web2py should close all of them explicitly but it is possible that something is missing. If you get a chance to try PyPy in more depth, let us know.
On Oct 7, 4:35 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > yes but it has a memory leak because some files are not closed by > default. It can be fixed. > > On Oct 7, 3:11 pm, cjrh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > web2py on pypy 1.3 appears to work: > > > 1.http://pypy.org/download/pypy-1.3-linux.tar.bz2 > > > 2. In a terminal, extract & run "bin/pypy web2py" > > > It seems to take a long time to start up, and it seems to take a while > > to load up the welcome page for the first time too; these are probably > > signs of the JIT working. I didn't see any of the "too many open > > files" errors that were reported here before, but admittedly I have > > performed nothing close to a stress test. > >

