Not necessarily. A prime example is printing multiple results from a database lookup stored as an array of hashes into a table. I have found it faster to have the foreach-like loop in the template (this with TT2) as opposed to having the foreach in the perl code, as you avoid the extra overhead of calling the template code for each line of the table. If you think of it as Data, Logic, and Display, the logic is the DB lookup, the data is perl's array of hashes, and the Display is the table; the foreach-looping to generate the table naturally falls into the template solution, as opposed to being done in the data handling (perl) area.

Mind you, doing anything more complicated that loops or simple if statements slows down the template. Data should be processed as much as possible to near the display, but not to actually display it.

Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain

In reply to Re: Re: HTML::Template vs. Template Toolkit by Masem
in thread HTML::Template vs. Template Toolkit by DBX

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