[Templates] Turning file version checking off

[Stuart Johnston]

Clinton Gormley wrote:
> I may be barking up the wrong tree, but the way I understand it, TT does
> the following:
>  - when PROCESS xxxx is called
>  - checks if it is in the current file
>  - if not, checks for the location of the file xxxx
>  - checks the last modified date
>  - if has been modified
>    - recaches it
>  - runs it
> 
> which is perfect for development, but I was wondering if it would speed
> things up in production if I could disable the disk check, so I can tell
> TT that it should use the templates as they are compiled, and not check
> for more recent versions.
> 
> Or maybe something along the lines of mod_perl2's ReloadTouchFile:
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/Reload.html#toc_Special__Touch__File
> 
> where the files are only checked when the TouchFile changes.
> 
> The reason I'm asking this is that I'm using a lot of templates for a
> small block of code (ie a building block that is used in several
> different places) and I am concerned that this will impact performance.
> 
> Thoughts?

You may want to read through this previous thread:

http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2005-July/007526.html