[Templates] Processing templates from variables

[Paul Seamons]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007 10:01 am, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Pronichev" == Pronichev Alexander <dyker@agava.com> writes:
>
> Pronichev> Thanks a lot, this is what I was looking for.
>
> Although I would suggest you rethink that.  Whenever you use "eval", you
> are compiling the template from scratch.  All of the nice caching (in
> memory and disk) provided by TT is thrown away, so your performance will
> suffer, perhaps drastically.

In Template::Alloy (drop in replacement for Template) - the strings are cached 
via MD5 - there is little performance hit to using eval.  Even without the 
MD5 caching the compiling is a bit faster in Template::Alloy.  This is 
similar to what Text::Tmpl does.  Using MD5 signatures for eval'ed strings 
and string refs passed to process has been discussed before in previous 
threads - I'm hoping the feature will be in TT3.