[Zope-CMF] Skin Folders and Performance

[Carl Rendell]

I believe there was some discussion in the group about this before, but 
I can't find the thread right now.

Looking at Plone and other CMF products we know that everyone adds 
skins or in some cases skin hierarchy's to the portal_skins properties. 
My question.. are there demonstrated performance issues associated with 
having deep 'Layers' for skins?

Intuitively it would seem that having to traverse all of the folders to 
pick a template would have some cost. Not sure if it is relevant.

I've thought about lessening the number of skin folders, and copying 
product skins into these 'super skin' folders instead of merely 
registering the skins and skin folders for each product.

Anyone care to weigh in, and/or point me to the thread that discussed 
this?

Thanks,

~C

Carl E. Rendell
Solution43
Information Distribution and Process Consulting
cer@sol43.com
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