Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework

Re:Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework by kjksf on Sunday January 04, 2015 @05:37PM (#8836163)

This comment only shows that you don't understand Amdahl's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law)

If it takes 10s for your Python code to serve a request, it doesn't matter if the framework takes 1s or 0.1s to parse http headers and call you. The 0.1s framework is 10x faster than 1s framework but it only makes <10% difference on metric that you really care about.

The only way to actually make a 10x difference on "time to serve a request" metric is to switch to a more performant language, like C# or Java or Go.

(and I'm using seconds for illustration purposes only, in real life the timing would be in milli-seconds, but the same logic apply)

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Re:Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework by felixgallo on Sunday January 04, 2015 @05:56PM (#8836229)

don't be a dick; also, you don't know what you're talking about. It's entirely possible that the guy's code is dominated by routing performance or copying.

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Re:Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework by dang on Sunday January 04, 2015 @06:03PM (#8836256)

> don't be a dick; also, you don't know what you're talking about.

The GP shouldn't have included that dig, but this comment would also be strictly better without the first sentence.

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Re:Falcon is a high-performance Python Web framework by zo1 on Sunday January 04, 2015 @06:04PM (#8836260)

>"It's entirely possible that the guy's code is dominated by routing performance or copying." Like that recent Netflix issue. Though that was node.js.

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