[Zope] Zope slowdown publishing big tables

[Chris McDonough]

Note that nested tables are notorious for appearing to be "slow" on most
browsers because the browser needs to render each table before showing
anything else on the page.  I'd suggest benchmarking the page generation
time with something other than a browser (e.g. Apache's "ab") to ensure
that it's Zope's fault and not the browser's if you haven't already.

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:53, Luton, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently written a few pages which either generate or contain
> large html tables. I started to notice some fairly substantial slowdown
> with tables over 100 or so rows. At a guess, I assume this is zope
> rendering all the <tr> and <td> tags looking for dtml, but it seems a
> bit slow even for that. We're running pretty substantial servers with
> plenty of memory, etc.
> 
> I'd be interested in any good ways to improve the speed of these pages.
> The obvious answer would be caching, but I'd rather avoid the
> complications that entails if possible. I'm more interested in what
> Zope's really doing to slow itself down here. TIA
> 
> --
> Alex
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