[Zope] Zope performance too low ?

I guess the subscribers to this list, more or less, like working with Zope. Developing dynamic pages is quick and easy, and code/design integration is very comfortable. However I'm starting to doubt if it's worth it. Some quick benchmarking with apache's ab utitlity gave the following results on my server(50 requests, no concurrency, ab ran on the server machine): Copy of the Zope welcome screen(served from disk): 204.08 requests per second The Zope welcome screen(served from Zope): 14.38 requests per second A page with lots of DTML Code(about 50 lines): 2.68 requests per second Repeating the benchmark gave similar results. How does your Zope perform? Can you live with it? I'm not sure if I can.