Jeremy, I don't know about Java vs Python speeds. I've little doubt Java is alot faster if for no other reason than the amount of resources Sun puts behind it. However resource intensity is a very big deal. RAM is a huge factor here. The Tomcat App was running in a VM limited 256 meg and serving roughly 8x the number of requests. Django suffers from running under mod_python in a prefork environment where every process loads a full copy of django. So as I'm sure you can imagine RAM gets chewed up very quickly. I've not read good things about running django in fastcgi so we've not tried that, frankly I don't trust fastcgi. As for optimizations neither version of the app has any to speak of. Just get me x,y and z from the database and push it into a page. No caching, although we'll be adding memcached in the near future in an attempt to recover some speed ( at the cost of RAM ).
Frankly I think a generic python application server similar to tomcat would do a world of good for python apps in general. Something similar to cherrypy... but this is beyond the responsibilities of the django community which have plenty great work left. I really wish I could talk more about this provide actual benchmarks and server info and code example... unfortunately, GOVERNMENT should pretty well some up why I can't and getting this licensed under NOSA takes longer than the little bit of code written to do this is really worth. Vance On 6/27/07, Jeremy Dunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 6/27/07, Vance Dubberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > ball of red tape but let's just say django is ALOT more resource > intensive > > and ALOT slower. > > Have you done any profiling? I haven't compared such a port, but I'd > be surprised if performance is significantly (i.e. one order) > different without some optimization being missed. > > If you have, can you point to any parts of Django that we could improve? > > As presented, there's not much actionable. "Java is faster than > Python" is not news, but I doubt the language is the problem here. > > Thanks! > > > > -- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. - Jacques Derrida --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
