Re: [Slashcode-development] template stuff

[Patrick G. <cap...@sl...>]

Chris Nandor wrote:

doesn't really look bad at all. It seems to primarily consist of $value .=
..., which totally makes sense when you consider templates deal with mainly
output.

It looks like the code before we removed the content!

> OK, attached are a pair of compiled templates.  I think the reason why I
> had performance problems with these templates before was that I turned off
> caching by accident.  I need to run some more tests, but I though you might
> want to see the compiled versions of the templates.  You can see why if I
> have 50 comments to view, and this code is created from the template for
> each, it would take a long time.  However, if this code is created only
> once, and executed a bunch of times from a subroutine reference stored in
> the Template object, it should be quite quick.
>
> In fact, I don't see any significant reason why code in a template should
> execute more slowly than code in a module or script, except that code in
> the template is calling more object methods than you would in a script or
> module, which is less efficient.  But I really don't think that difference
> will be significant.
>
> So what does all this mean?  I am going to load up my DB withg a bunch of
> comments and see what happens.  :-)
>
> We still need to discuss caching of templates.  There's a lot to consider.
> First, do we want to keep templates in memory for the life of an httpd
> process?  If not, how should we decide to expire them?  Over time, or with
> an LRU, or based on a timestamp in the DB?  And do we want to cache the
> templates on disk, so all the httpds can share the compiled templates, so
> they are compiled only once?  If we do that, how do we decide to expire
> them?  As I said, a lot to consider there.  We can discuss it some time
> this week.
>
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