[Zope] zope benchmarks now available

[J Cameron Cooper]

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>I'm also very curious about performance on dynamic content. My experience
>has been, and I think I'm not alone in this, that even with my rarefied
>understanding of the capabilities of Zope, I find myself exploiting it's
>advantages. I don't think I have a single static page on my site. I think
>it's more to do with mindset. I just don't think in terms of "static" pages,
>I'm more concerned with the logic than the presentation. In fact some of my
>pages are extremely complex. Perhaps much more than they need to be, but I'm
>still learning.
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Indeed. That test page was indeed one of the few times I've ever used 
static content in Zope.

One of my goals for the future is to test the dynamic capabilties better 
-- I used static and simple include pages to start with because they are 
(surprise) easier to set up, especially in translation between 
DTML/ZPT/JSP/SSI. This will force Apache out and allow JBoss in. Time is 
all it will take to set up a more realistic test suite.

In fact, I suspect that one of the reasons for the speed differences in 
my tests is that Zope treats all requests (even static ones) with the 
same procedures regarding security, REQUEST parsing, traversal, et al. 
Apache and the Java servers are doing few if any of these things: when I 
make them jump these hoops in the future, we'll see some better comparisons.

>Another comment I need to make - this is through experience with my manager.
>On http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/zope_benchmarks/benchmarks.html
>the key statement is "Tomcat is 2x or 3x faster than Zope when execute an
>SQL query", the key words being "SQL query". Not pages. Even I missed that
>first. I'm stating the obvious here, but sometimes even the obvious needs to
>be restated.
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I've stayed away from RDBs so far, but

>And a suggestion - I'd be very interested to know if the above was (still)
>true for DB access.
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I can definitely put this on the list. In fact, I already have. It may 
take a bit to implement (a database is a major component.)

            --jcc