App Engine SDK 1.3.5 - New Task Queue, Python Precompilation, and Blob Features

The pre-compilation of python code appears to significantly decrease the time required for cold starts. That's just great. Awesome team, awesome platform.

Does anyone use AppEngine in production? I am not trying to troll but we've have had pretty poor performance getting data out of their datastore. We only have a couple operations apps running on it and I could not imagine running anything that need to perform on GAE. BTW - We've had slowness in both Java and Python...

Is Python pre-compilation just compiling to bytecode as in .pyc files, or is it compiling to native code?

Still waiting for that full text search API. I believe the ticket was 'started' in October last year. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=217" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=21...</a>