How does Python compare to ?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007311048410.10092-100000 at sundial>,
Moshe Zadka  <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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>Of course -- heck, even I use CGI for most of my web solutions. The thing
>is, I'm not (currently) a web developer -- so when I have a problem to
>solve, the most important thing for me is how long it takes to set up
>the solution. For that, CGI rocks. However, as soon as you care about
>either performance or about program scalability (IOW, once it's beyond
>a form-to-send-mail and its ilk) (and if you don't, then the only
>difference between Java servlets, PHP-plugin and Python CGI is the
>syntax), the CGI is the most horrible solution available. 
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>CGI requires always a process startup and usually interpreter (be it 
>Tcl, Guile, Perl or Python) startup. That makes it unacceptable if there
>are more then 2 hits/second.
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I'm stuck.  It's going to be hard replying without
invocation of the canard about democracy being "the
most horrible solution available"--except for all
the rest.

Moshe and I are in agreement on all points, except
that I have customers receiving 20 hits per second
which they're contentedly satisfying with CGI-based
service.  Years ago, I thought it was ugly.  Now, I
just think I have bigger problems, and let CGI toil
on.
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Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
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