On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:31:00PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> [Patrick]
> > Ouch! Any idea how much overhead the ptl stuff adds?
>
> On the surface, I wouldn't expect PTL's runtime to cost very much.  It's
> just Python with a different way of accumulating and returning strings
> from functions.  But I could be wrong...

I think Patrick is worried about the setup cost of PTL.

> My intuition tells me that importing is worse for performance than PTL's
> runtime stuff.  Neil, did you run that benchmark with cimport or with
> ihooks?

I used ihooks.  PTL runtime performance is pretty good.

> Why don't we drop cimport.so into our /www/plat and let everyone,
> including our live site, bash on it?  That should build confidence.

Sounds good to me.

  Neil