Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty loading time

> Hey man...cool down ! Yeah... sorry > > In my response to your posting in smarty-general, I already told you that > > this is the time PHP needs to parse the file. There is no way accelerating > > this. > > Why not ? If you eat your butter bread, you won't be finished sooner if you split it up into four pieces, will you? > > It is faster on average dedicated webservers out there than on your > > machine, and if you don't have these 35msecs, either use another template > > engine or try somehting like PHP Accelerator. > > Here we develop solution for shared server.. we dont have acces to server's > plugin like phpa or the like. > and since i've try Smarty i fell in love with it... i've already work with > phplib template but i think it made is time up ! Even on a shared server, it's at least(!) 2 times faster than on an average development machine On my local machine (AMD 700MHz, Windows), it takes PHP ~40msecs, on my shared hosting account (P3, Linux, ~1000 hostings) ~15msecs, and on my dedicated Server (Dual P3 1GHz, Linux, PHP Accelerator) ~5msecs to parse Smarty.class.php If you want to use Smarty, you'll need to sacrifice a little performance, but I can tell you it's definitly worth the few milliseconds. If you take an average 50msecs response time, you have at least 100msecs before the first packet of data reaches the user, plus document rendering time, plus downloading time, plus webserver overhead, plus client document rendering etc. the ~20msecs (if you take a high value) it takes to parse the Smarty class aren't too weighty. A human being can NOT differentiate between 5 and 20ms, and unless you don't specify the rendering time on the bottom of your documents, your client won't be able to tell the difference. I am a performance optimiziation addict, too, but I had to accept these few fractions of a second, and I guess you won't manage to get around that ;) _Maybe_ the folks who develop Smarty will change that, but until then, it is not worth the effort, and believe me, if it is possible, they can do it ;) So long, David