"Tom Lancaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Absolutely. But I'd like to bring up something I've noticed in
benchmarking
> 'real' sites: many, if not all, of the templating solutions appear to
> parse the whole of an html page. This is at least true of Apache::ASP and
> HTML::Mason, which I have used. Is it not ?
Not really. They all cache the page in memory. It is not re-parsed every
time.
> I have produced really dramatic differences in performance in a two-tier
> setup by judicious use of mod_include vs. wholesale proxying of pages
> with dynamic content through to the mod_perl/Apache::ASP server.
[snip]
> Granted, I have other major bottlenecks involved: using Berkeley DB v1.x
> for session state, for one. Perhaps this explains some of it -- maybe the
> proxied header/footer requests never make session calls.
I suspect that it's a combination of the database access and the network
transfer. There is no difference in the amount of parsing going on, since
it's all cached after the first time (per child).
- Perrin
