I'm trying to get a sense of the rate limitations of a python frontend. I 
understand this will vary from system to system.

I adapted two frontends from the example templates, one in C++ and one in python. 
Both simply fill a midas bank with a fixed length array of zeros at a given polled 
rate. However, the C++ frontend is about 100 times faster in both data and event 
rates. This seems slow, even for an interpreted language like python. Furthermore, 
I can effectively increase the maximum rate by concurrently running a second 
python frontend (this is not the case for the C++ frontend). In short, there is 
some limitation with using python here unrelated to hardware.

In my case, poll_func appears to be called at 100Hz at best. What limits the rate 
that poll_func is called in a python frontend? Is there a more appropriate 
solution for increasing the python frontend data/event rate than simply launching 
more frontends?

I've attached my C++ and python frontend files for reference.

Thanks,
Jack