Praveen Ray wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of using clearsilver (http://www.clearsilver.net) with mod_perl (1 or 2)?
I remember talking to the author at one point.
Any comparisons of this with Template-Toolkit?
It will be less flexible (no simple handling of objects or complex structures without rearranging them for the template), have fewer bells and whistles (no wrappers, no plugins), and will not be possible to extend with Perl. In exchange, it might be faster, might use less memory, and will be able to use the same templates from C code. Yahoo liked it because they could load a bunch of data from C (e.g. XS code called from perl) without needing to turn it into perl data structures.
The Template-Toolkit is getting rather slow for our needs and I'm looking around for alternatives.
That's pretty surprising. Pure template processing is your bottleneck? Are you doing some kind of data processing or data retrieval from inside of your templates?
A very fast templating tool for Perl, suitable for people who don't need much beyond the basics, is HTML::Template::JIT. It compiles templates into small C libraries.
- Perrin
