Sebastjan Trepca wrote: > I have a question about image processing. We have a website which will > process a lot of images a day.It will be running Apache(worker) with > mod_python. My question is what should we use for processing. If we > use PIL the processing will be done with the same process that handles > other requests and that will probably slow them down when there will > be a peak.
recent versions of PIL release the GIL for all long-running operations, so a threaded design might good enough for your purpose. > If we use ImageMagick you create new process that does the > image processing which probably uses multiple CPUs better and is more > scalable, right? alternatively, you could just fork the Python process, and run each PIL (or PythonMagick) job in a separate copy of the main process. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
