I do not know for sure in this case. There is an overhead in serializing the UL/LI. Would be nice to have some benchmarks of both.
On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:56:04 UTC-5, Yarin wrote: > > Massimo mentions > here<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/MaL-nJFcKDc/R-JZ5DQOIzkJ>that one > optimization tip is to remove "remove un-necessary {{...}} from > the layout". Can someone speak to this- is there a real performance hit to > doing > > <ul> > <li>{{=var1}}</li> > <li>{{=var2}}</li> > <li>{{=var3}}</li> > </ul> > > versus this > > {{=UL( > LI(var1), > LI(var2), > LI(var3) > )}} >

