[ZPT] Parsing speed?

[Sim Harbert]

Speaking of caching, I tried to use the ramcache system to try to cache ZPT
objects, but it doesn't seem to work.  The tab is there and the objects can be
associated with the ramcache object, but they never show up on the Statistics
page.

Is this something that is not yet supported?  I am using version 1.2.0 of
PageTemplates.

-Sim

richard@bizarsoftware.com.au wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any moves to making the parsing of pagetemplates faster?
> >
> > Not until we've got an indication that it's currently too slow.  The
> > expat-based XML parser is about twice as fast as the re-based HTML
> > parser, by the way.  The theory is that parsing occurs rarely -- the
> > parse output is cached.  (We could cache more aggressively by making
> > the cache persistent; it currently isn't.)
>
> Yeah, parsing occurs pretty infrequently - I suspect it'll be easier on
> everyone if we just provide some feedback to the user that the system is
> actually doing something while parsing all the templates. I will also give
> the expat parser a whirl and see how that affects our performance.
>
> > > How about rendering speed? It seems pretty darned snappy at the moment, but
> > > then I'm running on an 800 MHz processor, and most things are pretty snappy
> > > on it ;)
> >
> > The rendering engine is pretty optimized!
>
> Definitely. I've been very impressed with it thus far :) I just realised
> that one of the big slow-downs we get is the debug-mode stuff we've got in
> there (a biggie is the call to pprint for the __traceback_info__ that we've
> got in there). I was completely blaming the wrong culprit, sorry!
>
>     Richard
>
> --
> Richard Jones
> richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
> Senior Software Developer, Bizar Software (www.bizarsoftware.com.au)
>
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