Need a compelling argument to use Django instead of Rails

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-07-29 01:07:12, Tim Roberts wrote:

> Vincent Delporte <justask at acme.com> wrote:
>>
>>BTW, what is the advantage of running a CherryPy/Django server instead
>>of the regular way of code in pages? Improved performance because the
>>Python interpreter is already up and running?
> 
> Exactly.  The Python interpreter can take a significant fraction of a
> second to start.  For the typical short web request, the overhead can add
> up.

Is this start-up overhead the same thing for PHP? Or is this handled
differently there?

Gerhard