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

What about without gzip? What about really large pages? > -----Original Message----- > From: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:54 PM > To: luis > Cc: 'Smarty Dev' > Subject: 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> > > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >