Andrew Kuchling on why [LWN] has found SCGI interface to provide better PyThon-web performance than ApaChe Mod Python. The second and probably most important factor is that the long-running process makes better use of the processor's cache... For [LWN]'s traffic load, one SCGI process ends up handling almost all of the workload, so cache locality is going to be quite good.

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