[Zope-dev] Re: Serving large files

[Rocky Burt]

On Sun, 2006-17-09 at 16:09 -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> b) If you dump the data to a temp file and return that as a file
>    iterator, it can potentially take twice the time.

Potentially, yes... but from a practical standpoint I believe this will
never happen.  Writing to a tempfile over any sort of local storage
(even a local network) will be *much* faster than downloading the file
itself.  If this is indeed a problem perhaps it's a deployment issue
where you should ensure the temp dir is on a fast local volume to make
sure this never happens.

As it stands right now this seems to be the only sensible approach to
returning a large file.

- Rocky

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