Yes, there should be some performance benefit to raw HTML. Also, in terms
of style, I think raw HTML is preferred in views, unless you are making use
of some of the special functionality of the helpers
(see http://stackoverflow.com/a/8095585/440323).
Anthony
On Monday, February 17, 2014 5:19:19 PM UTC-5, HittingSmoke wrote:
>
> I'm curious if there's any notable performance overhead with using
> helpers. I have the following to list database entries on my home page:
>
> <ul class="thumbnails">
> {{for i,post in enumerate(posts):}}
> {{if i==items_per_page: break}}
> {{=LI(
> DIV(
> A(IMG(_src=URL('static', 'content', 'thumbs', args=post.image),
> _class="img-polaroid"), _href=URL("view", args=post.id)),
> DIV(
> H2(A(post.title, _href=URL("view", args=post.id))),
> SPAN(XML(post.caption), _class="muted"),
> _class="caption"),
> _class="thumbnail"),
> _class="span6")}}
> {{pass}}
> </ul>
>
> I mostly nested all the helpers so I could better learn web2py's helper
> syntax. Now that I think I have a decent grasp of it I'm wondering if I
> should convert what I can of this to raw HTML in the view so there is less
> server-side code parsing.
>
> Would representing this view in raw HTML instead of building it with
> helpers provide any performance benefit since the server wouldn't have to
> convert it to HTML?
>
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