[Zope] How-To: Roxen Challenger and Zope

[Paul Everitt]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> On that note, I seem to recall mention of Zope Enterprise doing stuff
> like disabling the python global interpreter lock? What does htis gain
> us? I get the feeling it would improve performance for those of us doing
> virtual hosting. Am I correct?

Take a look at the ZEO PDF file:

  http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/ZEOFactSheet.pdf

The quick answer is: no.  Rather, you get to run multiple processes on
multiple processors/machines/networks and get one big distributed object
system.

--Paul