[Repoze-dev] Re: Invitation to a dance

[Ian Bicking]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, at the moment (for the standalone case).  Any WSGI server should
>>> do, but the Zope3 one is more solid than the wsgiutils / paste ones
>>> seemed to be for our use case.
>>
>> How ironic.
>>
>> I really really really wish someone would do a WSGI server benchmark 
>> (set of simple tests) so that people could have a better basis for 
>> selecting servers.  I really don't want us to be in the server 
>> business. I really want to see a benchmark that proves that ours 
>> aren't the best. :) The benchmark doesn't have to be perfect. 
>> Something that just did some fairly basic obvious tests would probably 
>> shed a lot of light (and probably spur more benchmark development).
> 
> I think the most commonly used non-Apache server implementations are 
> probably Paste's "http" server and PasteScript's "wsgiutils" server.  
> And maybe one Twisted's but I haven't tried that.

wsgiutils isn't very widely used.  CherryPy is used much more, available 
in PasteScript#cherrypy -- it's pretty reliably faster than Paste#http.

   Ian