[Catalog-sig] Cheeseshop performance improved

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> Can you be more precise? What does that mean? What operation
>> are you performing, and how did you find out that it is
>> very slow?
> 
> Well, I noticed that buildouts, which use setuptools, are running slow.
> Then I tried accessing the pypi home page, which was very slow.

Can you quantify that (milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours)?
In any case, that was apparently shortly before a restart, so
apparently, this was already at a point when peformance was
degrading.

Regards,
Martin