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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by andypants on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:40AM (#2949301)
The change means that it doesn't matter what you're waiting for. As long as you have an instance up, you are charged for it, even if it's not actually doing anything at that moment.
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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by StavrosK on Thursday September 01, 2011 @06:10AM (#2949353)
The multithreading change, though, will mean that a single instance will wait for multiple I/O calls to return. If these aren't charged, you'll only need to pay for that single instance and nothing more.
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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by sergeys on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:47PM (#2951926)
Unfortunately there's a limited number of threads to handle requests (like 8 per instance) and you can't create new long-lived threads. While an improvement, it's not a solution to the problem.
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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by ool on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:15AM (#2953349)
Where do you get the "8 per instance"? I can't find any information about the number of threads per instance. Thanks
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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by sergeys on Friday September 02, 2011 @02:00PM (#2954974)
Supposedly it will change, but that's what's available in Python 2.7 preview. The number might be different on release, but I don't think the limit itself will be removed.
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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by StavrosK on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:47PM (#2951927)
Ah, I wasn't aware of that... That is too bad...
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