[mod_python] Performance Problem

> From: "Graham Dumpleton" <grahamd at dscpl.com.au>
> To: Julien <jcigar at ulb.ac.be>
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:18:44 -0400
> Subject: Re: [mod_python] Performance Problem
> Julien wrote ..
> > I don't think it's possible (not sure) because mod_python starts many
> > python instances, so mod_python cannot keep python objects ...
> 
> This is not strictly true.
> 
> For any particular Python interpreter, that is generally 1 per process,
> the modules once loaded into the interpreter will remain loaded. The
> value of any global data within a specific module is thus retained
> between requests which hit that specific interpreter.
> 
> Obviously, different interpreters will have their own copy of the data
> value, but at least for the one interpreter, successive requests can
> make use of any cached data. As mentioned by Mike, this cached
> data could be a database connection pool.
> 
> Graham

I use only one interpreter using PythonInterprete option so different
processes have same globals. Are there any performance issues with
this?

Sebastjan