Message 168780 - Python tracker

> My understanding of the mod_wsgi architecture is that it uses
> subinterpreters to maintain a persistent process, while still
> providing a relatively pristine interpreter state to handle each new
> request.

I don't think that's true. On hg.python.org, the hglookup application
keeps a cached mapping of changeset ids to repo URLs, which wouldn't be
possible if its interpreter was re-bootstrapped for each new request.