Friday, November 28, 2008  Thwarted by lack of speed  I was
hoping to make an announcement of a new cool app based on
Google's App Engine but unfortunately I have been thwarted by
Python's relative lack of speed.  I have started working on a
new version of Crunchy that would run as a web app on Google's
servers. While the current version of Crunchy fetches existing
html pages, processes them and displays them in the browser,
this new version would retrieve html page content (in
reStructuredText format) from Google's datastore, transform it
into html, process it to add interactive elements, and then
displays them.  This new app was going to be usable as a wiki to
create new material. This was my starting point, greatly helped
by an already existing wiki example that I adapted to use
reStructuredText. When requesting a page, the following was
supposed to happen:  1. reStructuredText content (for the body
of the html page) is fetched from the datastore. 2. said content
is transformed (by docutils) into html 3. h