On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:54:54PM -0400, Ian Beatty wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm developing a Zope (2.7) product, and I've got a particular > persistent object that's going to be a real bottleneck, in that there > will be many threads trying to change the state of the object more or > less simultaneously. I'd like to "spread out" the problem by taking > member fields of the object (lists, dictionaries, etc.) and making > them persistent sub-objects in their own right. That way, changes made > to one of them can be saved to the ZODB without causing thread > conflicts with changes being made to others, removing at least some of > the thred conflicts.
sounds reasonable... > However, I don't know how to do this. Is it as simple as using a > PersistentMapping where I'd normally use a standard Python dictionary? Instead of PersistentMapping, see the various flavors of BTree, e.g. OOBTree, IOBTree. These do their own conflict resolution and in your scenario that could be a big help. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )