Migrations do affect time at al, in particular if you use an rdbms other than sqlite.
Try switch migrations off, click on the button "bytecode compile"/, and set cool_size=20. Let us know what you get. We can still do better but these three changes should give you a big boost. On Apr 12, 12:52 pm, Ross Peoples <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been developing my application for 6 weeks now and I stay updated with > the trunk version of web2py. I know that Massimo, Johnathan, and others have > been working to increase performance of web2py, but I had to make a Django > app for someone that was similar to one of the web2py applications I built > while teaching myself web2py about a month ago. Running the Django app, I > noticed that the Django app responds around 50 to 100ms faster in some > cases. My app still checks for migrations because I'm still developing it, > so I know that will slow it down a bit. > > Are there some areas where performance can be further improved to squeeze a > little more speed out of web2py applications? Also, is there a good way to > profile applications to find the slowest methods? Web2py is pretty fast > already, but I'm wondering if there are any known areas of slowness (besides > the obvious latency caused by database queries) within web2py that I can > play around with?

