Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Inlining plugins/modifiers

Boots wrote:

-- Andrei wrote ---- I think there is another point that is being missed that makes inlining attractive. Yes, include_once helps as does an accelerator. Andrei's comment is misleading, though: why should performance decrease? Because inlining will cause certain portions of the page to be re-compiled by PHP while they would otherwise just be looked up?

This is actually a very good point you're making here. I didn't think about PHP compiling the inlined code.

On the other hand, its tricky business because there are many details to consider, especially in a caching system. Also, it makes plugins more like snippet libraries. Never-the-less, I think inlining merits consideration though I don't think it should be an on-or-off switch.

I'd like to see something like this so that everyone could benchmark on his own setup. Jilles