[Twisted-web] making streams optional in web2

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:24:37 -0500, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
>
>On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>    def app(environ, start_response):
>>        start_response('200 Ok', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
>>        return 'WSGI is a wonderful thing.'
>
>There's a problem there: the return value of a wsgi resource is a  sequence, 
>so you're returning a sequence of single character strings,  thus causing 
>excessively high overhead. Perhaps that ought to be  special cased, cause 
>I'm sure more people than you will make that  mistake.

Yes, this is true.  It was accidental at first, but I intentionally left it in this form even after I realized what was going on.

Performance is roughly equivalent using either ['WSGI ...'] or other similar constructs.

Jean-Paul