Hi all,
I have mod_perl running and I am pre-loading the HTML::Template module (among
others) when Apache starts up. I also have a self written Page.pm module with
the 'print' method and uses the HTML::Template module to do substitutions in a
template file:
sub print {
my $self = shift;
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => $self->{'_template_name'},
path => [$self->{'_path_to_templates'}]
);
#more perl code...
}
I guess that every time this method is called HTML::Template reads in the the
template file from disk. I think this could be faster if the template was in
memory. I don't want to hard code the template into Page.pm to avoid the disk
access, as it would make maintaining the template difficult. If I preload
Page.pm and have a BEGIN {} block in it that loads the template file into a
variable for use within the module, would this BEGIN block get run when the
module was use'ed, some other time, or not at all?
This is the only method I have thought of so far, will it work? Does anyone
have a better idea than this?
Thanks
Will.
