[Zope] external method vs product?

[Dieter Maurer]

Keith J. Farmer writes:
 > I've got a process on my zope site that involves retrieving external web
 > pages, manipulating them, and returning them to the client.  The current
 > implementation of this uses external methods.  However, I notice that
 > there's a large time-overhead involved in what I guess must be the
 > python process starting up.
External Methods do not entail the start of a Python process
(unless, you start one inside your method).
Your time overhead must come from somewhere else.

By the way, external methods are very fast, much faster than TTW code.


Dieter