Python performance

[Schneider]

Hi list,

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? or should I better use some other programming language?
My second choice would be erlang.

bg,
Johannes


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[Grant Edwards]

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.

 

[Grant Edwards]

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.