Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-07-29 01:07:12, Tim Roberts wrote: > > > Vincent Delporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>BTW, what is the advantage of running a CherryPy/Django server instead > >>of the regular way of code in pages? Improved performance because the > >>Python interpreter is already up and running? > > > > Exactly. The Python interpreter can take a significant fraction of a > > second to start. For the typical short web request, the overhead can add > > up. > > Is this start-up overhead the same thing for PHP? Or is this handled > differently there?
Typically you run PHP as a module in your webserver, so there should be no process startup overhead. mod_python provides the same sort of functionality for Python, but is not as popular or widely installed as the PHP Apache module. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
