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[Lennart Regebro]

On 3/29/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2007, at 12:55 , Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> >> Martijn, I did the measurements last year already (when I applied
> >> for the
> >> project), and I know that converting the XML strings via schemas
> >> to Python
> >> values is about 50% of the startup time. Pickles, on the other
> >> hand, are
> >> quickly read, so I think the overall gain would be about 50%. For
> >> example, if
> >> Zope takes 4 seconds to start now, it would take 2 seconds after the
> >> improvements. I think that wildly! improves programming comfort. I
> >> would have
> >> never applied or suggested the project if I would have not known
> >> the numbers.
> >
> > That's a great improvement. A similar improvement could probably be
> > made if we specified configuration in Python, because strings would
> > be loaded by the Python interpreter. We would get that optimization
> > (and even the pickling to pyc files) for free.

Ooohhh... I didn't understand that, I understood the proposal at
optimizing and maybe making a python interface. If you make a python
interface, so that you can get speed optimizations, then I want it for
the Python interface.

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