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Ling Bao
lingbao at swingvine.com
Sun Jul 27 05:13:21 EDT 2008
Thanks for addressing my question! That was helpful. On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Graham Dumpleton < graham.dumpleton at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/7/25 Ling Bao <lingbao at swingvine.com>: > > I'm a newbie to mod_python and the open source community in general. > Here's > > what might seem like a stupid question, but please entertain me : ) > > > > I'm building a site and serving its pages with mod_python out of a www > > directory. I have a bunch of .py files in the www directory for > rendering > > the home page, sign in page, etc. Each of these modules also imports > > packages and modules from other directories. > > > > In the other directories containing the imported modules, I see .pyc > files. > > However, in the www directory where the mod_python handler is picking up > the > > top-level scripts for handling requests, I don't see any pyc files. I > think > > this is expected because python doesn't auto-compile py files unless > they're > > imported by some other module. > > A custom built module importer is used by mod_python, where for code > files which are reloadable, no .pyc file is generated nor used if it > existed previously. > > > My question is am I suffering any performance impact by letting > mod_python > > use py top-level scripts under the www directory instead of manually > > compiling these scripts and having mod_python run the pyc files instead. > > No. > > > Or is all this moot because mod_python does auto-reloading and keeps the > > scripts under www in memory (unless the py files are modified in which > case > > a reload occurs)? > > Pretty well, that is the case. > > Note that in Python web application hosting, the network performance, > whether Python optimisations is enabled, or whether .pyc files are > used are never going to be the performance bottleneck, so I wouldn't > particularly waste your time on it. Worry more about things like the > performance of algorithms used by your application and database query > performance. > > Graham > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mm_cfg_has_not_been_edited_to_set_host_domains/pipermail/mod_python/attachments/20080727/04b8dabb/attachment-0001.html
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