Fast Imaging for Webserver

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Paul McGuire:
> before you start replacing PIL, or
> optimizing CherryPy, or other possible performance-improving efforts,
> you should profile the within-request processing, find the bottleneck,
> and take care of that first.

Good advice.
Among the tests, the OP can also try to change the antialiasing type of
PIL, going to the nearest neighbor, and doing some transfer timings
again. It may help find where the bottleneck is.

Bye,
bearophile