robert wrote > Robin Becker wrote: > > A large cgi based web Python-2.3 application needs to be speed improved. > > experiments show the following under reasonable testing (these are 2 > > second reportlab pdf productions) > > > > 1) 2.3 --> 2.5 improvement small 1-2% > > 2) cgi --> fcgi improvement medium 10-12% > > > > I sort of remember claims being made about 2.5 being 10% faster than > > 2.4/2.3 etc etc. Can anyone say where the speedups were? Presumably we > > have a lot of old cruft that could be improved in some way eg moving > > loops into comprehensions, using iterator methods etc. Are those sort of > > things what we should look at? > > Python 2.5 became quite fat. For bare CGI the Python load/init > time eats all improvements. Smaller scripts even loose lot of speed. > I still like Python 2.3 for many other reasons for many > applications - especially for CGI's, on Windows, for deployable > apps, GUI's etc. because the fat coming with Python 2.4 is not > balanced by necessary goods - mostly just fancy things.
What do you mean? Fat of libraries or fat itself? I tought that 2.5 was faster than precedent versions! :-\ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list