[cgiapp] Re: HTML::Template vs Template::Alloy

[Mark Stosberg]

> It's certainly the slowest option available. That hasn't hurt us sofar, and 
> we've had some high-profile events (during the Miss Universe competition we 
> had about 40 million hits per day). On the other hand, we're getting so big 
> that I'm now looking into the faster options (TT2, Template::Alloy), because 
> shaving 50ms off every request adds up.

Rhesa, 

I hadn't noticed Template::Alloy before. It does like interesting as an
option that is like HTML::Template with the dot notation, but faster. 

It doesn't support filters, which is an H::T feature that I use, but I
could find a way to do that pre-processing before handing the templates
off to Allow. 


I'm not thrilled that the Alloy  H::T mode includes every templating
feature on the sun, but perhaps they could be ignored. 

I had followed HTML::Template::Compiled with interest in the past, but
now it has become a suite of about 20 modules with more features and
complexity than suits me. 

If you do try Template::Alloy, I'll be interested to hear a review of
that. 

    Mark