[Templates] Processing templates from variables

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Seamons <mail@seamons.com> writes:

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

Why MD5 and not SHA1?  MD5 is known weak.

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