On 03/26/2012 03:29 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Stef, > > Thanks for Dynamic Web Development With Seaside - it's a great book! One > omission that I have noted is that of dynamically serving files. > > Making a long story short, I have a Seaside app that swallows and > regurgitates literature (300 MB and growing). It is what has me interested > in Citezen (which is working wonderfully - thanks again!). I wish I had > known more about Seaside when I started to write it, but it is slowly > improving. Clearly, I can't put hundreds of megabytes in a FileLibrary, and > I have no interest in configuring a static web server for something that > (sadly or not) runs locally on multiple machines, with data synchronized via > what amounts to an rsynch clone and ever-growing flash sticks.
It's hard to describe how much better Apache is at serving static files than Seaside/Pharo. The stability, performance, scalability, efficiency, it's from an other world. Cheers Philippe
