[Zope] Zope vs other Web Languages.

[Thomas B. Passin]

Michael R. Bernstein said -

> Unfortunately, there is almost no chance that Zope will
> compare favorably to any of the options that you've
> mentioned *purely from a performance standpoint*. This is
> because DTML needs to be evaluated, and the engine that's
> doing the evaluating is itself written in an interpreted
> language (Python). Whereas the interpreting engines that
> you've mentioned are written in compiled languages, or in
> the case of JSP a bytecode compiled language (somebody is
> certain to correct me on this if I'm wrong).
> 
Python (and so Zope) actually does compile to its own bytecode.

Tom P