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Old Apr 12th, 2006, 6:25 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Arevos
However, you'd be right in thinking that a forum done in CGI wouldn't be that fast; for each HTTP request, Python would have to be started up and parse through a .py source. For something simple like an email sending script, this doesn't matter so much, but a system that relies on a lot of dynamic content, such as a forum, would suffer noticable slowdown.
That's exactly what I meant. Forums and sites like mine rely a lot on calculating static content to prepare all the pages. My site takes about 20 seconds just to calculate and parse the 400 profile pages and the thousands of other pages on the site. If it were to do this each and every time the .py source is parsed, my website would suffer tremendously. @_@
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