Why avoid CGI for Python with LAMP hosting?

Question

I have been using PHP for years. Lately I\'ve come across numerous forum posts stating that PHP is outdated, that modern programming languages are easier, more

Answer 1

Really it's just an efficiency thing - CGI spawns an entire new process for every request, which is quite heavyweight for what it does.

PHP can be run through CGI as well, but mod_php embeds the interpreter within apache. There's a mod_python which does the same job, and mod_wsgi as Yuval says.