Re: few newbie quesitons..

["James. L" <suppressed>]

--- Perrin Harkins <suppressed> wrote:

> On 5/11/07, James. L <suppressed> wrote:
> > even if i am using an iterator object and call
> it.next
> > in TT, doesn't TT actually keep the rendered
> template
> > page into one variable and dump it to the browser?
> in
> > that case, the memory consumed is still equal to
> the
> > entire size of the data and iterator doesn't help
> > here. am i right?
> 
> You would end up with one copy of the data in memory
> (in the rendered
> template) instead of two if you use an iterator.  If
> it's a really
> large amount of data, you could avoid creating a
> giant template output
> variable by breaking it up into multiple chunks and
> sending them to
> the client as you go.  Template Toolkit may not be
> the best tool for
> this part of your application.
> 

thanks for confirming this. 

also, i found this post on TT mailing list that
describes a way to flush TT content as soon as it gets
generated.

http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2004-February/005776.html

downside of it is that WRAPPER directive is broken in
this case. but i don't use it in this app.

> - Perrin
> 

James.


       
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