On 19-Sep-06, at 1:52 PM, Philip Tellis wrote:
too much work - and there are some pretty massive sites out there running on
only if you do it manually. what you're doing is akin to compiling a C program everytime a user wants to run it. OTOH, you could get gcc to do that once and just give the user the binary.
mod_python + cacheing cuts this down dramatically
the less dynamic content on a page, the better it will scale.
obvious - but the less dynamic content, the more work for the programmer and there is no fun in being a programmer if you have to work
nope, less work for programmer. less work for the web server. more work for the preprocessor.
how many hundreds of millions of users do these sites have?
no idea - they are not yahoo or google anyway. washinton post seems to be the biggest - but i dont think they are multilingual. Someone on this thread suggested we do it how google does it, but he didnt elaborate.