network servers

[Cameron Laird]

In article <930ba99a.0403020250.66d3536e at posting.google.com>,
Sridhar R <sridharinfinity at yahoo.com> wrote:
>We're planning to write a server for handling atleast 1000 and atmost
>4000 clients.  The connection is basically (TCP)
>connect-send-disconnect type.  So no client will open up its
>connection forever, except for the small time duration of sending the
>message.  This is something like online programming contest, where
>clients will submit their programs for evaluation and server will
>return the results (after sometime). I though of writing the server
>part in C and use Python for client.
>
>Is it possible to use python for that high performance serving?  Note:
>There is only one physical machine.

Yes.  It's even realistic, and advisable.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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