I've had just a quick glance at the module. Apparently it has over 3300 lines of code (including docs, interspersed between the code) and it takes up more than 120kBytes. That's quite a lot, especially for a "lightweight" templating module.

What I was hoping for, is something that (AFAIK) TT2 does provide, and that is preprocessing a template file and turn it into a plain Perl source file, and save that to disk. The template is actually converted into a Perl module. That way, when the template doesn't change, the templating module doesn't even have to be loaded into memory, and output generation can happen at full speed. That sounds like the most promising approach for CGI applications, to me, as it is lightweight, and templates don't change too often.

So... what is your opinions on these thoughts? Did I miss something, or did you think about it and found it was just not worth the trouble, or... ?

In reply to Re^3: Moving A Template Module Namespace by bart
in thread Moving A Template Module Namespace by Rhandom

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