[pypy-dev] PyPy & Django: recommended mySQL module?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> On Sun, 8 May 2016, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would personally use something cffi-based, like this:
>> https://github.com/andrewsmedina/mysql-cffi
>
>
> Well, neither this seems to be supported by Django, nor it looks like it's
> actively maintained... :-/
>
>> Generally speaking all cpyext-based solutions will be slower (although
>> these days I know MySQL-Python should indeed just work and not crash) than
>> non-cpyext based solutions but depending on the application you might or
>> might not care.
>
>
> Okay, so I started out with CPython and I'll keep an eye on the load; the
> plan is to bring up a second upstream to experiment with PyPy and see if
> this is getting me anywhere. I will then either try the pure Python fork of
> MySQL-Python, or the original and see if that's really the bottleneck.

For the record - if you are using django ORM, then the mysql binding
is unlikely to be your bottleneck for accessing the DB.

>
> On a related note, has anyone tried binary wheels with PyPy, are they known
> to work? Among other dependencies I have is for example Pillow; so far I've
> been building binary wheels on a dedicated development server and deploying
> them to the application server which doesn't have any complier
> infrastructure installed. Will this simply work for PyPy?

It should.

>
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev