Is xmlrpclib slow?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I've been working on a little server lately, and I've
been toying with using xmlrpc in it... And just for
fun, I thought I'd test its performance. Since I'm
working on a not-quite-up-to-date Sun box, I'm not
quite sure what processor I have... But it seems reasonable.
(Not exactly fast, but OK, e.g. about 10000 records
written to MetaKit takes 1 second.)

First I implemented it with a simple
BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer and tried to throw 100
queries at it... And it took 21 seconds to do even just
simple parroting! I tried the same thing with Medusa,
and it took 11 seconds!

Is it just the machine I'm using that's really slow, or
is the xmlrpclib module a big bottleneck here?

(I realise I haven't given any real empiric info here,
but if someone has the know-how, I guess it doesn't
matter ;)

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  Magnus Lie Hetland         http://www.hetland.org

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