[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-CMF] i18n for CMF And Plone, backporting i18n to Zope 2.x

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > concerns.  After talking with Fred, I came to understand that much of
 > the code's current obscurity is due to optimizations to make TAL
 > perform at least as fast as DTML.

Well, faster than it used to.  We need to spend time on performance.

 > So while I'd love to have the code be cleaner and more pluggable, we
 > have to decide 1) if we're willing to give up some performance to
 > acheive this, and 2) if not, can you provide a design and
 > implementation that will "perform adequately"?

It might be time to investigate Pyrex:

    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation