[Zope] Re: audio order

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:16:00AM +1100, Sergey Volobuev wrote:
> 
> >The fact that the files are stored within Zope means that you will 
> >still have to serve them up via Zope (either download or streaming), 
> >and as has been previously mentioned, Zope is not very good at serving 
> >up large files.
> 
> As i understood from announce, Zope 2.7.1 will contain some improvements 
> in this area.

Sort of. 

2.7.1 includes a feature which product developers can use
to stream data directly from the filesystem faster than current
solutions (and fast enough to saturate a T3, so there's probably 
no point in going faster :-).  

But it depends on the product to take advantage of it, by
returning a special iterator instead of a string; and
- notably - it's unsafe to do database reads inside the iterator.
So it's really only good for stuff that is stored or cached
on the filesystem.

We did write a filesystem cache that uses this feature.
That might be what you're thinking of.

More info:
http://www.slinkp.com/code/zopestuff/blobnotes

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com