On 6 Feb, 12:30, "Lorenzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately I have to use Apache. The server implementation will we > very easy, so I'm also considering more efficient solutions than > python
You could try mod_python if there isn't an absolute requirement for CGI: http://www.modpython.org/ Some people might recommend other frameworks which operate in separate long-running processes, but if you don't have the freedom to have such processes, you might wish to consider focusing on the start-up costs of your CGI programs. Once upon a time, CGI was deemed very expensive because process creation was itself expensive, and many database- related CGI programs had to open connections to database systems whose connection costs were very expensive (eg. Oracle). While not spawning new processes and not opening and closing database connections avoids such costs, it is worth reviewing just how expensive such things are on modern operating systems (on modern hardware) and with other database systems (such as MySQL, which you said you were using). Ultimately, some benchmarking/profiling will indicate whether your performance expectations are realistic. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list