there's also the question of the delivery architecture:
if there are multiple machines in a clustered
configuration, even something such as DNS round
robin, then improving performance is a matter of
throwing machines at the front end.On May 9, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "OkaMthembo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> I need to write an ad-serving application and i'm >> using Win XP as my dev platform. > > The real issue is what are you using for your deployment > platform,. If its Win XP then Python is probably fast > enough since XP cannot handle huge volumes anyway. > If its enterprise scale Windows or some other OS then > there are other questions to ask. > >> i wonder if Python would have the performance or >> scale fast enough to a large user base. > > Define large. Its not normally the number of users > that matters but thenumber of concurrent users. > Google has probably 10's of millions of users > but less than a million at any one time. Are we > talking google sizes? > >> Python and Java, but Jython only supports Python 2.2 > > Jython will not be significantly faster than Python. > And unless you have a good optimising/JIT compiler > neither will Java IMHO. > > But Python 2.2 would be adequate to write a server > anyhow so you just lose a few of the latest bells > and whistles, no big loss. Given the choice between > Python 2.2. and Java 5 I know which I'd prefer... > > Alan G. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
