written on March 01, 2009 I hate the stdlib. There! I said it. Why do I hate it? Cookie, cgi, urllib, n’uff said. Today I can add another module to the “I hate you” list. I noticed that Werkzeug‘s SharedDataMiddleware was just delivering 50 requests a second. I tried around a bit but nothing changed. Until I removed the call to mimetypes.guess_type. Suddenly I got 500 requests the second instead o

