[tahoe-dev] Tahoe benchmarking data

[Chris Palmer]

Brian Warner writes:

> Yup. I suspect that your large files are running into python's performance
> limits: the best way to speed those up will be to move our transport to
> something with less overhead (signed HTTP is our current idea, ticket
> #510), then to start looking at what pieces can be rewritten in a faster
> language. The obvious parts are already in C or C++.

I don't understand this. What limit of Python's is responsible?