On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > OTOH, if you were to try to replicate some of Mason's more powerful > features with H::T, like autohandlers, inheritance, etc., then I'm > sure that'd bring H::T's speed down to Mason's level ;)
I wouldn't be too sure. I implemented a lot of that stuff to add HTML::Template support to Bricolage and it's still much faster than Mason. > In other words, you generally get what you pay for. The most powerful and > flexible systems are generally slower and more RAM-hungry. One exception > to this might be Embperl, which has large chunks written in C. In that > case, the cost is paid for in development time. HTML::Template::JIT also trades development time (mine) for run-time speed. Right now it doesn't support all of HTML::Template's functionality, but it comes pretty close. The upside is that it's between four and eight times faster than HTML::Template, which makes it the fastest templating system by a large margin. -sam
