Re: Python performance

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python performance
Date	2013-08-02 14:06 +0000
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On 2013-08-02, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-08-02, Schneider <js@globe.de> wrote:
>
>> I have to write a small SMTP-Relay script (+ some statistic infos)
>> and I'm wondering, if this can be done in python (in terms of
>> performance, of course not in terms of possibility ;) ).
>>
>> It has to handle around 2000 mails per hour for at least 8hours a day
>> (which does not mean, that it is allowed not to respond the rest of
>> the day.
>>
>> Can this be done?
>
> That's only a little over 2 per second, so I doubt Python is going to
> be the bottleneck.

Doh! I meant 2 seconds per message.  That's certainly not a problem.
But, as others have pointed out it's probably the peak rate not the
average rate that matters.

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Python performance Schneider <js@globe.de> - 2013-08-02 14:00 +0200
  Re: Python performance Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:04 +0000
    Re: Python performance Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:06 +0000

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