Re:Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
by masklinn on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:51AM
(#3460179)
> I have never hosted/written a django app, do people typically run a request in a thread in django?
Depends on the handler, mod_wsgi allows for m:n (mixing threads and processes) for instance.
> I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+).
That's correct, but any C IO (such as DB queries) will generally release the GIL, which allows other threads to run.
(technically, CPython has a GIL, Python-the-language does not mandate it and neither Jython nor IronPython use a GIL. Pypy also has a gil currently, but Armin has started exploring STM to see if it would be a good replacement)
Depends on the handler, mod_wsgi allows for m:n (mixing threads and processes) for instance.
> I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+).
That's correct, but any C IO (such as DB queries) will generally release the GIL, which allows other threads to run.
(technically, CPython has a GIL, Python-the-language does not mandate it and neither Jython nor IronPython use a GIL. Pypy also has a gil currently, but Armin has started exploring STM to see if it would be a good replacement)