[Zope] Apache?

Hello, I've just read article about zope on linux journal, installed it, love idea, but is it really good for high loads (100+ req / second), because it takes around 3-4 secs. for first request after some idle time of Zserver, but gets bit faster after first requests is done. Maybe there should be something like mod_zope invented, to speed things up. I'm zope newbie and most likely wrong, but i've been doing php for years. Thank You.