Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a cgi-script dat uses the modules cgi, os, sys and time. Offcourse I >can not time the time used to import time, but os and sys do not take more >as a millisecond. My script itself takes 3 or 4 milliseconds. But importing >cgi takes 95 milliseconds. (This is on my test system a PII 300 MHz. Is >there a way to make this more fast? The import off cgi makes the script at >least 20 times as slow. Something like mod-python is not a possibility. I >could use it on my test machine, but not at the osting provider.
Realistically, do you plan to support more than a few dozen requests per minute? If not, then it doesn't matter at all. The script launch overhead is an insignificant part of the user's browser experience. If you do expect a hundred requests per minute, then CGI is not an appropriate choice. You either need to switch to a one of the web frameworks (like CherryPy or Django or WebWare or one of the hundreds of others), or <gack> move to PHP. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list