So you can serve a production site using Python's wsgiref and SimpleHTTPServer?
Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for bottlenecks, the choice is clear. Even if I modify my code to be faster, a faster server doesn't hurt.
This "benchmarks are useless" meme is overdone. "Hello World" benchmarks don't matter, but if a server is significantly faster on my real world application, why would that benchmark be meaningless for me?
Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for bottlenecks, the choice is clear. Even if I modify my code to be faster, a faster server doesn't hurt.
This "benchmarks are useless" meme is overdone. "Hello World" benchmarks don't matter, but if a server is significantly faster on my real world application, why would that benchmark be meaningless for me?