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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:45:45+00:00

A client of ours is asking us to implement a module in C in

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A client of ours is asking us to implement a module in C in Apache webserver for performance reasons. This module should handle RESTful uri’s, access a database and return results in json format. Many people here have recommended python mod_wsgi instead – but for simplicity of programming reasons. Can anyone tell me if there is a significant difference in performance between the mod_wsgi python solution vs. the Apache + C.module. Any anecdotes? Pointers to some study posted online?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This module should handle RESTful uri’s, access a database and return results in json format.

    That sounds like the bulk of the work is I/O bound so you will not get much of a performance boost by using C.

    Here is the strategy I would recommend.

    1. Implement in Python
    2. After getting it done, profile the code to see if there are any CPU bottlenecks.
    3. Implement just the bottleneck portions in C.
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