On 07/08/2014 03:04 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > At a minimum, it would seem to affect deployment performance. We are much > more forgiving of things that slow down deployment than we are of things > that slow down typical page loads, but not infinitely forgiving. How much > overhead would this add to deployments?
This depends on how we wire this up. There would be no effect if compilation & caching happens dynamically in ResourceLoader, or a couple of ms per template if it's done on deploy. > Template compilation is hardly a new technique (Smarty anyone?), so I'm > assuming that technique could be (and has been?) applied to other engines. Indeed. Most fast engines are using compilation, and some like handlebars and knockoff also use pre-compilation for best performance. > I'm personally somewhat skeptical about Knockoff, but only somewhat. My > main concern is that we don't end up adopting something that people will > consider to be yet another weird Mediawiki-ism, because we have a lot of > those. I wholeheartedly agree. The idea behind Knockoff is to complement a popular and rich reactive library (KnockoutJS) with a fast single-shot runtime (TAssembly) for server-side and simple client-side use cases. Both KnockoutJS and Knockoff / TAssembly are general-purpose templating libraries without ties to MediaWiki. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
