On Monday, May 14, 2012 12:06:28 PM UTC-4, Ross Peoples wrote: > > The problem with doing it as a C module is that it would have to be > compiled. I know that this is something that has been mentioned before but > was shot down because web2py wouldn't be easily accessible, modified, etc, > which is the goal of web2py. Alternatively, maybe running web2oy in PyPy > environment could improve the performance without taking away from the > flexibility of web2py. >
C modules would also make web2py less portable (GAE, Jython). Could also be a problem with PyPy (even if the C modules run on PyPy, my understanding is that they are actually slower than pure Python). Anthony
