On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:03:20AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> FWIW, I switched LWN over to the SCGI mode of operation (from mod_python) a
> week or so ago.  I've been well pleased with the change; the performance
> improvement is significant.  The 1.0b1 release works well.

Why is there a significant performance improvement, considering that
mod_python embeds the Python interpreter in the web server, while SCGI
keeps the interpreter in a separate process?  It would seem that the
inter-process communication between Apache and the SCGI server would
add overhead and thus degrade performance.  Thanks.
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