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

I really think global output buffering for smarty is a bad idea. For instance, it would slow down a server which has mod_gzip installed. Doing buffering in php and in apache, as mod_gzip would, is just using more memory than needed. I don't think turning on/off output buffering through a smarty function is right either. Except in the case of fetch(), output buffering falls outside the scope of Smarty. Tom -----Original Message----- From: luis [mailto:luis@fuegolabs.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:38 PM To: 'Thomas Schulz'; smarty-dev@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [SMARTY-DEV] Is Smarty using PHP output buffering? I disagree. If OB is faster then Smarty should use OB transparently to the user/developer. It's not fair to ask a developer to fetch when there's a display method based on performance issues. The two methods should do the same internally, the semantic difference is whether the method outputs the content or not. --- Luis Argerich ( ) ASCII Ribbon Campaign http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net X against HTML on email "There's no spoon" / \ and Usenet posts > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Schulz [mailto:ths@4bconsult.de] > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 5:23 PM > To: smarty-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [SMARTY-DEV] Is Smarty using PHP output buffering? > > > Monte Ohrt schrieb in php.smarty.dev: > > > 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 > > Hi, > > I think gzip does some output buffering... > > When I render the main template of my application, that > includes some other > templates and plugins (which fetch other templates) I get > these results: > > display() --> 0.65 secs/page > echo fetch() --> 0.38 secs/page > > But I think there is nothing to change in Smarty. If a > programmer want to > have full control over output-buffering, he can use fetch()... > > Thomas. > > -- > http://4bconsult.de > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php