RE: [SMARTY-DEV] Is Smarty using PHP output buffering?

I just ran a test on our CMS front page, gzip enabled, no caching. display() --> 1.724 secs/page echo fetch() --> 1.751 secs/page Not much difference, and who knows how conclusive that is. Monte On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 13:21, luis wrote: > I "sliiiightly" disagree with that. I don't think memory consumption is > an issue, or at least if it happens it is a rare situation in an old > server. > If using output_buffering is faster than not using it then display() > should use output_buffering transparently. > An option to switch outptut buffering can be added for systems with > problems as there is a switch to prevent directory creation for the > templates_c dir. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:21 PM > > To: luis > > Cc: 'Smarty Dev' > > Subject: RE: [SMARTY-DEV] Is Smarty using PHP output buffering? > > > > > > ... and he says right in the slideshow, be careful on low > > memory systems. So it depends on your environment. > > > > If this works well for you, then turn on output_buffering in > > your php.ini. > > > > Monte > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 11:07, luis wrote: > > > Can you try to test if the output of Smarty is faster suing > > > output_buffering? Sterling Hughes mentioned that Output > > buffered pages > > > generally are rendered faster because Apache doesn't have to block > > > between I/O operations. > > > A link to one of the slides: > > > http://talks.php.net/show/hpp/11 > > > > > > Luis. > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:58 PM > > > > To: luis > > > > Cc: 'Smarty Dev' > > > > Subject: Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Is Smarty using PHP output buffering? > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually Smarty avoids output buffering when it can because > > > > this is viewed as an unnecessary overhead (collecting output > > > > into memory before flushing to the browser.) > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:32, luis wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Sme benchmarks and studies show that the use of output > > > > buffering even > > > > > when you don't do anything else can improve the time needed > > > > to render > > > > > a page. So a very simple question: Is Smarty using > > > > ob_start(); before > > > > > outputting all the data? > > > > > > > > > > Luis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: > > > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > > Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> > > > > > > -- > > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>