[Zope-CMF] Skin Folders and Performance

Ausum Studio ausum_studio@hotmail.com
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:05:27 -0500


It's a valid question. I'd suggest you to test it using CallProfiler, by
measuring the skins(methods) performance at its default place (skins
folder), and then move all of them to the portal root, and perform the test
again.

AFAIK, anyone has made this before.



Ausum



----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Rendell" <cer@sol43.com>
To: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: [Zope-CMF] Skin Folders and Performance


> I believe there was some discussion in the group about this before, but
> I can't find the thread right now.
>
> Looking at Plone and other CMF products we know that everyone adds
> skins or in some cases skin hierarchy's to the portal_skins properties.
> My question.. are there demonstrated performance issues associated with
> having deep 'Layers' for skins?
>
> Intuitively it would seem that having to traverse all of the folders to
> pick a template would have some cost. Not sure if it is relevant.
>
> I've thought about lessening the number of skin folders, and copying
> product skins into these 'super skin' folders instead of merely
> registering the skins and skin folders for each product.
>
> Anyone care to weigh in, and/or point me to the thread that discussed
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~C
>
> Carl E. Rendell
> Solution43
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> cer@sol43.com
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