I am no win32 expert (and btw I hope I will never need to be one), but there are much better alternatives to select: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681951(VS.85).aspx
mic 2013/3/15 Roberto De Ioris <robe...@unbit.it>: > >> I was missing the windows build option totally.... If speeds between unix >> and Windows are at least on the same scale it can solve the >> mother-of-all-issues of windows deployments of python apps without using >> apache or iis. >> > > > I was not able to make some serious benchmark as all of the windows > machines i have are virtualized systems. > > From what i can measure the cygwin translation has a 10-15% impact in some > area (mainly in startup phases so it is nothing relevant), but we plan to > rewrite some critical part using the native windows api (we have already > done that for the locking part that instead of pthreads uses windows > mutexes). > > Another limit i have not investigated is windows select() implementation > (on the others posix system we use more modern event facilities). But i > suppose until you do not use it with hundreds of concurrent file > descriptors you should not experiment problems. > > -- > Roberto De Ioris > http://unbit.it > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
