Re: [SMARTY-DEV] var renaming, speed testing and no-cache

[snip] > Anyhow, it is nice to report quicker load times but reporting them as a > % change in this instance is misleading since Monte's tests apparently > only show the difference in start-up times between the two engines and > does not show relative performance characteristics between the two. > > I don't want to rain on the parade, but much more interesting will be > some benchmarks of long running 2.5.0 pages that invoke many functions, > different includes, etc. Also Monte, are you doing your fetch 1000 > times? Try putting a section with a 1000 iterations so that you do 1000 > includes instead of 1000 fetches -- much more closely related to > real-performance, in my opinion :) you're right with that, the benchmarks may not be that realistic, but I guess it's the load times that benefit the most of the abstraction... have you ever just measured the time it takes to INCLUDE Smarty.class.php? on my machine, that's about 30msecs! > > I am dying to run these myself but I don't have the time to port my > necessary patches to the new CVS changes before I go on holiday next > week. I am sure I will have much more to say later in July!! whereto? ;) > Finally, messju, can you please give a few words regarding the no-cache > changes that were added to the engine? oh yes, please ;) didn't have the time to test it yet... > Great work all! yep... the latest developments are definitely nice ;) David