3 Apr
2001
3 Apr
'01
1:36 p.m.
Michael R. Bernstein said -
Unfortunately, there is almost no chance that Zope will compare favorably to any of the options that you've mentioned *purely from a performance standpoint*. This is because DTML needs to be evaluated, and the engine that's doing the evaluating is itself written in an interpreted language (Python). Whereas the interpreting engines that you've mentioned are written in compiled languages, or in the case of JSP a bytecode compiled language (somebody is certain to correct me on this if I'm wrong).
Python (and so Zope) actually does compile to its own bytecode. Tom P