I know this is possible. But I'm having trouble to imagine a web app design (or other network server) based on that idea. In order to use a lot of data in memory I would have to have a single Python process that gets called by nginx or apache. So that would be a bottleneck even before I get a chance to call my extension. And later there wouldn't be much code left that executes in the Python interpreter, which kind of defeats the purpose.<p>But I have to admit that I haven't fully thought this possibility through. Maybe you're right that it can be made to work.