Re: Template techniques [ newbie alert + long ]

[Perrin Harkins]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Greg Cope wrote:
> My original question was not related to templates (I'll use embperl for
> that)

Well, I'm confused now.  You'll use Embperl for templates but you're not
using Embperl for templates?

> - the area I was trying to explore was how to read a template (all
> HTML with a few <!--TAGS--> in it) and the sub in the new content.

Embperl would work fine for that, but it's overkill.  Your substitution
approach is slower than compiling to perl subs, especially since you have
to load the file, but saves lots of memory and is fine for something as
simple as this.
 
> Has anyone any suggestions as to speeding this up - yet keeping it
> simple - I have played with referances to avoid all the variable copying
> etc . ?

Caching templates in memory would certainly help, but you'll eat up a
chunk of RAM.

- Perrin