On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:03 AM, Dieter Maurer wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote at 2008-8-28 15:22 -0400: >> .... >> I don't think zipped eggs are a win in any real scenario, except >> possibly the goofy file-count-limited GAE. I would strongly prefer >> that >> you revert this one change (you can override it in your own >> '~/.buildout/default.cfg'). > > We have observed a drastic speedup (on both Windows and Linux) > in import time (about 30 %) when we have put our complete > (large) application (consisting among others of Zope 2, CMF, > Archetypes) > in a (single) zip file.
... > > However, I am not sure whether our observations for a single > large zip (in fact, we use two: one for our application, the other > for Python's > runtime library) is valid for the case of many small zipped eggs. In fact, for a small application that I wanted to be able to run as a CGI, zipping several non-large eggs (such as zope.publisher, for example) made imports slower. It was faster to use unzipped eggs. This was on Linux. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )