CGI speedup strategies

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Ian Clarke wrote:
> I have always been dissatisfied with the way that CGI scripts work,

   Many people feel simillary...

> loading the interpreter and then the script, not to mention making SQL
> connections, loading databases etc - and this for *each and every*
> access.  Ok, software like modpython (or is is pyApache?) allieviates

   It is PyApache, and there is hing called httpdapy.

> some of this overhead, but it is still far from ideal.
> 
> Has anyone tried actually implementing a Python webserver which just
> starts a new thread and runs a piece of Python code in it every time
> someone makes a HTTP request?  This server could then cache any objects
> (such as files, or SQL connections) in memory to be used by any Python
> scripts (this would obviously require all code to be thread-safe).

   Have you heared of Medusa? Zope? Seems Zope is THE answer for ll your
questions. www.zope.org.

> Can anyone think of any problems with this technique?
> 
> Ian.
> 
> -- 
> Ian Clarke -                    http://www.gnu.demon.co.uk/
> "A subversive is anyone who can out-argue their government"

Oleg.
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