Python App Server Advice

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Sat, 31 May 2003 10:39:01 +1000, 
	Graeme Matthew <gsmatthew at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> inerpreter startup costs are nil. The area that is concerning me is for
> every web request a socket connection will need to be made to the appserver,
> the cgi args formatted into xml then send to the model layer (appserver) and
> wait while it processes it and then recieve html page and then print back to

Seems reasonable.  The cost of a local socket connection should be quite low
in comparson to the XML parsing time.  You could do preliminary measurements
to confirm that, and to form some idea of the relative speeds of the various
steps.

--amk