[ZODB-Dev] Re: What makes the ZODB slow?

[Chris Withers]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>>> BTrees perform best when keys' prefixes are randomly distributed.
>>> So if your application generates keys like 'foo001', 'foo002',... you'll
>>> get lots of conflicts. Same for consecutive integers in IOBTree.
>>
>> Tempted to call bullshit on this, since there's code in the catalog to
>> specifically assign series of keys...
>>
> Calm down ....

Oh, sorry, forgot some smilies ;-)

Don't worry, perfectly calm here *grinz*

Chris

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