On 11 Jun 2010, at 12:51, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > HI Alex, > > I don't have any numbers to offer about speed. > > I think programmer speed is a big consideration though - I personally opt > for really simple template solutions like Template::Simple. > > I have seen some brain-busting Mason templates that although they may > execute quickly require 1/2 a day to get your head around - so the ongoing > cost £££ can be high. TT comes with yet another syntax to learn and another > place to look for potential bugs.
As ever, there's no such thing as a magic answer. I don't disagree with anything you say, but you don't always have that luxury of choice. Sometimes, when you are programming for the web in the large, execution time is considerably significant. Admittedly, most people don't work at this scale. I myself have worked on some moderately busy web apps before, and consequently spent much time doing ugly computational things I disliked inside the presentation layer. You need to optimise in the right areas. Look at Facebook and their bazillion lines of PHP templating and native PHP compiler. Look also at Twitter, with their beautiful MVC RoR roots, and their recurrent whale pictures. -- Regards, Colin M. Strickland _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
