Optimise repo_connect by skipping authenticate_user The authentication being handled by pyramid itself, going through the authentication stack to recreate the temporary session at each request is very costly. On my desktop, for a mostly static front page, the total time for delivering the page drops from 100ms to 47ms.

include *.txt *.ini *.cfg *.rst
recursive-include sampleapp *.ico *.png *.css *.gif *.jpg *.pt *.txt *.mak *.mako *.js *.html *.xml