[Zope] How Fast & Stable??

Brian Lloyd Brian@digicool.com
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:03:41 -0400


> From the tone of the thread, it looks as if things are moving towards
> FastCGI. I am also looking at a solution with Tcl/Velocigen, 
> and the guys
> there write that:
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>
> Freely available interfaces do exist that use the FastCGI 
> standard. These
> other solutions require you to dedicate a single process for 
> each script
> executed and encourage the creation of fewer and larger, more complex
> scripts, rather than many smaller, easy to manage scripts.
> 
> Also, these other FastCGI Perl implementations require you to know the
> details of the FastCGI protocol, and force you to manage 
> memory and system
> resources.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Do these factors apply when FastCGI is used with Zope - or is 
> Zope smart
> enough to handle memory and system resource management for 
> the developer?
> 
> Sorry if these are ignorant questions - this is a new field for me!

There are no igorant questions :)  FastCGI integration with Zope, like
the other transport implementations, will be totally transaparent to 
the developer - the only time you will have to think about it is when
you install it.


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
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