[ZODB-Dev] ZEO bandwidth requirements?

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:26:44 -0400


>>>>> "JF" == Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> writes:

    JF> Oracle storage benefits a lot from compressing pickles. I
    JF> suspect that the same *might* be true for the Berkeley
    JF> storage.  It's tempting to send compressed data through ZEO to
    JF> the storage, so that compression and decompression is done on
    JF> the client, however, currently the Berkeley storage would have
    JF> to decompress the pickle to get object references.

Right.  If we really wanted to explore this with Berkeley we'd have to
add the object references to a table (which is something we talked
about early on).

-Barry