[Zope] Zope Myths?

[Casey Duncan]

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 01:18 pm, Andy McKay wrote:
> > One final semi-myth you might want to cover: its slow.
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> Actually I was referring to the myth that Zope is slow. This is a commo=
n
> idea. What a web server, database thing written in Python? That wont be=
 as
> fast as IIS / Apache / Java stuff will it? Etc....
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> > If your ZPT is too slow, I would
> > say you are doing too much in ZPT.
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> He he. Thats it back to DTML ;) I've never heard anyone say that before=
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No I mean your ZPT "code" is too complex ;^)=20

Or just make your ZPT call out to DTML methods for speed (no I'm not seri=
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;^)

This could be generalized though as "your skin code is too complex", for =
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performance do as much in external Python as possible, spitting convenien=
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data structures for the skin code to play with (but you knew that). Lucki=
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this is even easier in Zope 3.
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> > ZPT is slower than DTML
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> Yep, but one day some smart cookie will probably optimize the heck out =
of it
> C and it will be faster than DTML. But we all know caching is the real
> answer... Im not arguing that

I just don't think that's on anyone's radar right now...

-Casey