Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> writes:

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Martijn Pieters wrote:

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In Zope, the inputs to a rendered document depend on the acquisition path taken, and there is an unlimited number of combinations. I don't think that a dataflow scheme is therefore applicable to Zope.

I tend to agree. Cacheing of targets, which is implicit in dataflow, only works when there are a limited number of targets and those targets are likely to be used in the future.

Well, there are certainly sites where very few HTTP requests would be repeated, and caching would be a waste of time; but I'll bet there are sites that would be willing to trade off some of the power of Zope (by avoiding some of the more interesting uses of acquisition) for significantly better performance. Carl Witty