[Zope] Question on Performance

[LEE, Kwan Soo]

I have come to two performance question on the Zope(may be).

1. Which is better, a faster processor or larger ram, to get quicker
response?

2. Which is quicker, depending strictly on DTML or using an External
Method, to pit out selected static contents from about 200 DTML
document.

uhhh, well, I heared that performance issue and benchmarking are
dependent on so many circumstance and too complex a witchcraft  that I
can not understand. So what I want is a general rule for a dummy.

I have come to the above questions, when I uploaded 277 static documents
which is spitted by a DTML Document. That DTML Document compares the
request with the id's of the 277 files and select some of them to spit
out. Not so clever to write down an elegant DTML codes, I wrote down an
External method and found that the External Method response quicker then
my simple minded DTML codes(the E-method and the DTML documents are
called by another DTML document). Still the quicker response is desired.
My Zope is running behind Apache through pcgi on a linux box with
28MBytes RAM and 133 MHz Pentium(actually this box runs 3 instance of
Zope + apache and usually a dummy(more dummer than me) is using
Netscape).

TIA.

LEE Kwan Soo.