[Zope] Editing downloaded + installed product?

[Tres Seaver]

Stefan Hoffmeister <Stefan.Hoffmeister@Econos.de> wrote:

> : On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:48:49 -0400, Michel Pelletier wrote:
>
> >> From: Stefan Hoffmeister [mailto:Stefan.Hoffmeister@Econos.de]
>
> >> (Re)starting ZServer takes about 18 seconds on my development 
> >> NT4 system
> >> (192 MB, 540 Mhz overclocked Celeron). I somehow feel that 
> >> this is an a
> >> tad bit inappropriate time lag.
> >
> >Why?  
>
> Let me add "for development purposes" to clarify.
>
> Look, I am used to blazingly fast compilers - Object Pascal (Borland
> Delphi) and Borland C++Builder with well-done pre-compiled headers. 

Yeah, but try deploying that newly-compiled application to thousands of users
all over the world in nineteen seconds.  Server side tools have different design
forces, and therfore different tradeoffs.

>
> 19 seconds delay, combined with the "manual" action of shutting down
> the server + starting it up again - I perceive that as an eternity. 
>
> What do I do in these 19 seconds?

You catch up on Zope mail -- what else? :)  FWIW, it takes my (almost empty)
ZServer about 3.5 seconds to restart on Linux.  You might try packing the
database, perhaps?

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