[ZODB-Dev] RE: lost "implementer"

[Chris McDonough]

Package "depth" has no impact on performance (at least that I've  
noticed).  It's almost certainly not the primary reason for any given  
Python program to be slow.  I'd like to read that blog entry to see  
if that person knows more than I do.

As far as eggs go, AFAIK, package depth is not really an interesting  
metric either.  It seems immaterial how deep an egg package is.

- C


On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Tamas Hegedus wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Somewhere I have red (in a blog) comparing java and python. If I  
> remember well the main reason to write that was the Boa (?)  
> constructor written by java programmers...
>
> So: It states that Python packages should be as flat as possible  
> (use less names in the namespace (?)), since the name space is  
> resolved during running time not at compilation time in case of  
> Python (or something like that; I am not a programmer). So if you  
> have a deeply structured package (or more packages) you may suffer  
> in performance at runtime. (Boa is very slow; although it is use  
> also a lot of 'reflection'.)
>
> What are you comments?
> Do you have some experience with performance problem using eggs (or  
> very 'deep' packages?
>
> --------------
> My point of view: it would be great to have ZODB, ZOE, ZCatalog in  
> different eggs :-)
>
> Tamas
>
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> See the egg intro doc at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/  
>> PythonEggs .
>
>
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