RE: Templating System (preview Embperl 2.0)

[Matt Sergeant]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:
> 
> > To keep it fast Embperl is written in C.
> 
>       Unless you use mmap(2), you can't compete with the speed of
>       HTML Tree.  The only downside of mmap(2) is that HTML Tree must
>       be first in an Apache::Filter filter chain.

I've heard that mmap is only faster on single processor systems. On a dual
or above system you don't want to use memory mapped IO. (This was,
admittedly, from Phillip and Alex's guide to web publishing).

Besides, I agree with Gerald, that reading in the template is a tiny
portion of the overall problem. You may benchmark reading in _and_ parsing
the template all you like, but ultimately people's web serving bottlenecks
are generally database access and network latency.

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