On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Joseph Xu <joseph...@gmail.com> wrote: > When we're talking about a small script with trivial running time > (which is not necessarily the case here), the 10x slower startup time > for python does make a difference when you're programmatically > executing the script several thousand times.
...and this is precisely the garden path that people followed to create modern massive web frameworks. "We'll just have an always-on python program that directly serves http! Wait, then we can't use our existing web daemon's caching, authentication, or load-balancing. No problem! We'll just have multiple python httpds, sitting behind a caching mechanism, and we'll proxy to that from a web server." It's possible to get very good performance with such a stack ... but it's definitely not in line with the suckless.org methodology. -- # Kurt H Maier
