Re: A question for the newbies

[Daniel McBrearty]

A quick word in amongst the other stuff - couldn't agree more about the horriblenes of PHP's treating hashes and arrays as one thing. It was a pretty instant put off for me when I looked at that language a year or two back.

One question about the various template systems and mod_perl : is there not a performance hit in using these? If there is effectively perl code in the template which actually changes with different pages that load, isn't mod_perl forced to recompile the code for each request?

If not how?

When I looked at all this a while back, I figured that this must be the case, and went with CGI::FastTemplate as it uses pure regex matching, I suspected it was likely to avoid this. Was I wrong? Is my code actually quicker than it would have been with TT / Mason?

This is of more than academic interest as I may well switch to Catalyst soon, if I do so I might redo my templates at the same time. So I'd like to know.

thanks. Good thread.

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