From: Takashi & Kayoko Sano <tksano@...3.kcn.ne.jp>
Date: 2004-11-13T22:13:40+09:00
Subject: Re: FastCGI parameters (get and post)

Hi, 

"trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> wrote:
>On Saturday 13 November 2004 01:00 am, Aredridel wrote:
>| On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:53:11 +0900, Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@ubit.com> wrote:
>| > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 04:13:08 +0900, Aredridel <aredridel@gmail.com> wrote:
>| > > Give XTemplate a spin -- with a little work to emulate hashes in your
>| > > objects, you can use arbitrary objects as data, as in Amrita, and it
>| > > works nicely and fast
>| >
>| > XTemplate seems pretty close to Amrita, but I really do not want to
>| > have to make my objects emulate hashes.  If I have to put that much
>| > work into preparing my output, then I might as well stick the data I
>| > want into hashes in the first place...  Although, thanks for reminding
>| > me of XTemplate!  When I get the time I will try to look into it a bit
>| > more.  How much faster is it than Amrita?
>|
>| A fair bit, since it can use an XML parser. Not an order of magnitude,
>| but noticeably. Depends on what you do, of course.
>
>I've often heard Amrita is great but slow. I wonder if anyone is up to 
>translating the slow bits to c ?
>
>T.

Actually, the author did it. The author of Amrita released an 
experimental version which implements some of its functions in C. I 
guess it was version 1.8.2 something but the development of it seems a 
bit stalled since then.

Takashi Sano