[Zope-dev] New version of BTreeFolder. Just a Newbie Question

[LEE Kwan Soo]

Oh, well, I'd bet this is a silly question. But I can not resist nor find answer by myself.

Q: Why don't you BTree-fy all the subclasses of ObjectManager? 
Is there a reason that anyone but can a newbie see?

LEE Kwan Soo.

ps. I only hope to be able to make clear statement in English, but i am already too sleepy now. sorry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Hathaway" <shane@digicool.com>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] New version of BTreeFolder


> Hi gang,
> 
> This version just fixes a bug with the folder contents tab on Windows. 
> For some reason, on Windows 95 (and perhaps other platforms) the Python
> interpreter behaves differently enough that if you use a class
> attribute from a different module and put it in your own class, you may
> in fact be modifying its global context.  It's probably a bug in
> Python.  As a workaround, this version of BTreeFolders doesn't have the
> "details" tab anymore.
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/BTreeFolder/BTreeFolder-0.1.1.tar.gz
> 
> BTW has anyone done any semi-formal speed tests?  It's rumored that a
> custom getattr in Python can cause a bit of a slowdown.  We could write
> a custom getattr in C to solve the problem.  But we don't want to do
> any premature optimization.
> 
> Shane
> 
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