I'm writing a small web server for testing purposes using python, BasicHTTPServer and SimpleHTTPServer. It looks like it's processing one request at a time. Is there any way to make it a little faster without messing around too deeply? Basicly my code looks as the following and I'd like to keep it this simple ;)

os.chdir(webroot)
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", port), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
print("Serving directory %s on port %i" %(webroot, port) )
try:
 httpd.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
 print("Server stopped.")