I've got a process on my zope site that involves retrieving external web pages, manipulating them, and returning them to the client. The current implementation of this uses external methods. However, I notice that there's a large time-overhead involved in what I guess must be the python process starting up. If I switch these to regular products, will that overhead still exist, or should I expect (relatively) instant response? I'm running on win32. There's another process that involves loading a dll to perform some database retrievals and statistical operations. In the python interpreter, it doesn't have any trouble at all. As an external method, it seems to enjoy restarting zope most (but not all) of the time. Could I possibly hope for better behavior if it's turned into a regular product? ---------- Keith J. Farmer kfarmer@thuban.org http://www.thuban.org