Python is slow

[Duncan Booth]

Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:

> [nibbling a little flame-bait]
> 
>> Python is even slower than PHP!
>> 
>> Just go to any Python website and you will know.
>> An example is:
>> http://www2.ljworld.com/
> 
> I'm not sure I'm seeing what you're seeing -- the dynamic page 
> loaded in under 2 seconds -- about on par with sun.com, 
> python.org, php.net or msn.com all being pulled from non-cached 
> servers.  You sure you're not mistaking your bandwidth and/or 
> browser-rendering slowness for Python-as-a-web-server slowness?
> 
For another example try http://www.novell.com. That's a Plone site which 
gets a lot of visitors and isn't noticeably slow.