Re: [Openinteract-help] SPOPS-lite for CGI?

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Chris Hutchinson wrote:
> Is there any 'standard' way to reduce the load/configuration time of
> SPOPS-based classes?
> 
> I'm trying to run an SPOPS-based application under non-mod_perl CGI, and the
> compile/load time of pages is currently quite slow.

Are you sure that the SPOPS initialization is the problem? It very 
well could be, but if/before we do any work I'd like to know that 
it's actually the issue? It's doing a fair amount of work at 
initialization, particularly if you're initializating a lot of 
classes, but I don't think it's doing *that* much work as compared 
with I/O-bound processes like accesing your database.

So how many classes are you initializing? Are there lots of custom 
rules or behaviors? Are you using security?

> I tried defining database fields in the classes, rather than
> discover_fields, but this made no difference to the speed.

Defining everything in the configuration makes sense -- keep 
accesses to the database down.

> Can any specific configuration be made in the class hashes so SPOPS doesn't
> need to run all its configuration work generating accessors, etc.

Not right now. To be honest speed, particularly initialization 
speed, hasn't been a real big priority to this point -- most of the 
people using SPOPS do so in a persistent environment, so 
initialization isn't a big deal.

Later,

Chris

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