From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T17:16:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Another take on RDoc's templates

On Saturday 28 December 2002 02:31 am, Tom Sawyer wrote:
| currently i use eRuby. I would have liked to use Amrita, but it seems the
| attribute templating is still considered experimental.

If you're talking about attribute expansion; yes it is still 'experimental' 
(as of 1.0), but I speak from experience when I say it is definitely working.  
I use amrita for the vast majority of my web projects (in the past I used 
eruby) and attribute expansion has never been a problem.  I'm guessing it is 
only considered "experimental" due to the fact its implementation may be 
changed sometime in the future (I defer to Nakajima-san for further details 
and/or clarification).

| i'm curious as to the relative performace comparisons between the various
| templating options. anyone have any experience to draw upon for this?
|
| -transami

Eruby/erb is decidedly faster than amrita due to the way data is applied to 
the templates (amrita actually understands the template 'context' when the 
data is applied, enabling it to apply sequences repetatively, etc-- this 
"smart" templating comes at an obvious perfomance cost)-- other templating 
libraries blindly insert data, IIRC.  Amrita is, of course, an excellent 
choice for static page creation, but I would caution using it in larger, 
heavy bandwidth projects where templates would be expanded dynamically.  
Speed optimization is definitely one of the chief areas of concern in Amrita 
development; I'm sure the situation will become more amenable in the future 
as the project matures.

Hope this helps,

~ Bruce

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