[Zope-dev] Re: ThreadSafeCounter

Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:24:50 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Steve Alexander wrote:

> Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> >
> > ...it is quite feasible to have one or more storages
> > inside your Zope ... often at a non-trivial time cost.
> 
> Where does the time cost come in? I've noticed a delay on first
> mounting another storage, but I haven't looked for a delay on
> accessing objects in the storage.

I was talking about a time cost for "packless" storage;  updates
are typically harder to do, especially in a transactional way,
than appends.

I don't have any sense that mounted storages induce significant
performance penalties.

Tres.
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