[Zope] Re: Zope scalabilty and problems

[Chris Withers]

michael nt milne wrote:
> I am setting up sites using Plone and am concerned to read some of the
> comments on it. Is it really that bad performance wise? 

"it depends", unless you have a lot of experience with it, Zope and CMF, 
you might well find yourself with a slow site on your hands and not many 
apparent options ;-)

> I'm using
> CMFMember also-why is it 'apalling'?

It's an incredibly heavyweight and inefficient solution to a problem 
that requires an extremely fast and efficient solution: user object are 
used a LOT in most Zope apps, CMFMember makes them slow, in a numbner of 
ways. Generating writes which result in AT-based member objects being 
reindexed and often resulting in conflicterrors that dramatically slow 
down a site is not a good thing...

cheers,

Chris

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