durusmail: quixote-users: 'nother embedding option, + benchmarks query.
'nother embedding option, + benchmarks query.
2002-03-29
2002-03-29
2002-03-29
'nother embedding option, + benchmarks query.
Titus Brown
2002-03-29
Hi all,

I've now spent several weeks developing two different sites with Quixote
inside of PyWX, an embedding of Python in AOLserver, a GPL'd threaded
web server.  The code does not yet take full advantage of the threading,
due mainly to a combination of my laziness and Quixote's design, but it
works quite well from a functional standpoint and it seems fast enough.

I will be cleaning up the Quixote adapter and making it available with
the next release of PyWX, which should happen by the end of April.

I can pitch PyWX more if people are interested, but there's really no
point: it's just a nice clean embedding that I can get to work much more
easily than mod_python/mod_snake/fcgi/etc.

Which brings me to my 2nd question: what sort of benchmarks would people
be interested in seeing (if any)?  One of the main reasons to use AOLserver
and PyWX is scalability; AOLserver is what AOL.com uses, so anecdotally
it's pretty robust and scalable, but I don't know how to provide numbers
demonstrating this.  "Hello, world" benchmarks are too artificial for anyone
to believe these days! Any suggestions?

cheers,
--titus

p.s. Let me know if you're interested in trying out the PyWX adapter.
Right now PyWX is a bit hard to build, which is the biggest obstacle..


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