Re: [htmltmpl] H::T ported to C?

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, David Kaufman wrote:

> Has anyone tried this XS implementation of HTML::Template?
> http://search.cpan.org/~viy/HTML-Template-Pro-0.50/ I'm interested
> to hear whether it is really "10-25 times faster" than pure-perl
> HTML::Template and/or really 1-3 times faster than H::T with caching
> under mod_perl...

I did try it. I found two problems: 1) it's slower than
HTML::Template::JIT and 2) it has some significant compatibility
problems.  An example of 2, if I remember correctly, is that errors
are communicated by embedding the error message in the return value
from output() rather than via die().

-sam