Python performance

Fri Aug 2 10:06:38 EDT 2013

On 2013年08月02日, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013年08月02日, Schneider <js at 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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