Why does every conversation about Django's performance met with "GTFO we don't care"? (that was a rhetorical question :). I'd venture to guess that most "It's fast enough for me!" responses are predicated on experiences that can be likened to personal blog development, rather than large scale, 10+ server deployments (e.g., Disqus, et al).
If you had great abs, nice pecs, ripped legs, a nice deltoids, and 4" circumference biceps, you'd *probably* start to care when people said, "hey, what about those biceps...", no? Are CPUs, RAM, and electricity free? (that too was a rhetorical question :) Django is an *epic* (not in the literal sense :) framework, which offers a tremendous amount of functionality with nary an inkling of logical restraint. You can accomplish basically anything with Django without running into arbitrary limitations (e.g., have a gander at the limitations in most frameworks' URL dispatchers, just as a relevant example). To shorten this, from a features / ease of use standpoint, Django is just plain awesome. BUT... Django is NOT that fast. 1) Django templates are unbearably slow (doesn't matter for a blog or something simple, but try something with lots of inline model formsets in a page and quite a few includes, and before you know it, you're wasting a decent percentage of your CPU on templates). 2) URL dispatching 3) Middleware is applied liberally (vs the a la carté, more efficient decorator approach to AOS) The list goes on. What is the harm in discussing the weak points of Django? Performance is probably the only major weak point in Django right now (aside from the lack of schema migration in core, which is coming soon anyway). I have no solution or patches in my pocket, but I can say with absolute certainty that performance will never, ever get better when discourse is in a monologue format. That's all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/uZ9r1EtZnj4J. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
