John Nagle wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Regardless of the possibility of speeding it up - why should one want >> this? Coding speed is more important than speed of coding in 90%+ of all >> cases. > > When you have to start buying more servers for the server farm, > it's a real pain. I'm actually facing that because Python's HTML > parsing is so slow.
I can't believe that this is a general "python is to slow"-issue. After all, lxml and cElementTree are _really_ fast - and written in C. For example in TurboGears, there are two python-only templating systems - KID & genshi (apart from others). The latter is a magnitude faster than the former. After all, O(n^3) is O(n^3), regardless of the language... And if only the html-parsing is slow, you might consider creating an extension for that. Using e.g. Pyrex. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
