[ic] mvasp vs loop-field

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Dan Browning)]

At 07:04 AM 4/12/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > On the query/check_orders.html, I am trying to speed up the process a 
> little
> > bit.  I tried rewriting the MVASP code in there to standard IML.  I 
> used the
> > same basic structure found in /templates/components/promo to build this.
> > Doing it this way made it even slower, with a huge amount of activity 
> on the
> > interchange and mysqld daemons.
> >
>When people want to increase a page's speed and efficiency, they
>rewrite the page using [perl] or [mvasp] etc., abandoning the IML
>tags.  What you have done is the opposite and will result in the
>page being slower to process, as you have found.
>
>If the page is full of tags then the page parser will have lot of
>work to do.  If the page has just a couple of tags and a blob of
>Perl then the page parser will have almost nothing to do, resulting
>in a huge performance gain.  After that, any further efficiency gains
>will depend upon your Perl coding skills and how you structure, index
>and access your database tables.
>
>If it is speed you are after then I suggest that you abandon your
>changes.  If you are just converting things to gain a better
>understanding of the Interchange markup language then that's another
>matter.

Further, make sure you don't miss this good reading on optimization:

http://interchange.redhat.com/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=icfaq14.02

HTH,


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