Now, reading through a recent entry at perl.com on the new Template module, I got to thinking how I may be able to take advantage of this: I certainly could use the ability to use templates to produce various results of the DBI output that I'm getting. However, I'm concerned about speed -- with preliminary scripts running under a mod_perl-enabled virtual host of apache, I seem to be getting no speed benefit, yet. Mind you, two possible slow effects are occuring: I'm using fetchrow_hashref to get the values out from the DBI call, which might have some overhead, and after getting the row data, I do additional processing (more DBI or file reading) for supplimentary stuff. And furthermore, some of the formats for the Templates that I have planned will not use all this data. The data is simple rows, no complex data structures outside a few join'ed arrays.
In other words, I have a tradeoff between a concise and modular function that does the results display but runs slow, and to use several different functions for each list type but most likely a benefit in speed. I'd rather avoid the latter case, but I'm finding right now that even with queries of 5 results, the results take a long time to process. Is Template just not the right tool here, and should I fall back on just using something similar to here documents for each row?
In reply to Speed of Template by Masem
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