[Templates] TT Speed Question

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:15:14PM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote:
> The most important thing with TT performance, the thing that most people
> get wrong, is that you need to have one Template object that persists
> between requests.
> 
> This means doing something like:
> 
>   our $template ||= Template->new();

When I'm handling each page, I have create an INCLUDE_PATH that's
dependent on the URL, so that bits can be dropped into any of the parent
directories.

	# @libs is an array of absolute paths searched in order
	# for the file specified in the URL. Check from most specific to
	# least.
	my @libs = map { "$template_root/$_" } (
			"",
			# etc
	);
	unshift @libs, map { m~/$~ ? "$_$path" : "$_/$path" } @libs if $path;
	# etc

	my $template = Template->new({
			INCLUDE_PATH    => [ @libs ],
			# ...

So as it stands it's creating a new Template object per request. Do you
have any suggestions how I might get around this i.e. retain this or
similar behaviour but also make it persist? I didn't 'til now realise
the persistence was that important.

I suppose this boils down to: does the INCLUDE_PATH affect its
internal cache? And can it be set after the creation?

Cheers,
Paul

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