[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python) (original) (raw)

Francois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
30 Jan 2003 16:30:31 -0500

[Graham Guttocks]

e.g, what if I wanted to write an httpd daemon that could scale as well as Apache (millions of hits/day)?

More than 625 hits per second average? If you really have this need, and see Python developments that could help you, I would guess that Python developers might be interested in them. If you do not really have this need, than this discussion is merely discursive and academical, and might be better held elsewhere than on `python-dev'.

Python would not be up to the task.

I would be tempted to consider many architectural avenues, before bluntly deciding that the choice of Python as an implementation language is the problem. With millions of hits per day, I would most probably be big enough to have a flurry of other problems of all kinds, and then, Python would be more on the side of many solutions than the source of my problem.

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