Bones' Blog of Stuff About Things

For some reason, the update time on the page has increased from around 4-7 seconds to 30+ seconds. I have no idea why that sort of huge slow-down would happen, but restarting the Apache server didn’t fix it, so I have to assume that the reason is in my code. I’m just going to leave [...]

Sort of. I discovered that the mod_python FAQ suggestion about persistent variables was a bit misleading and so had to try another tack to cut the page time. I thought that loading the map from file would be faster, so I implemented a check on the last db update and only downloaded from the db [...]