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esperlu
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Joined: 11 Apr 2011
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:44 pm    Post subject: Caching and performance Reply with quote

Hi all,

I am benchmarking smarty with ab for a project I have.

Plain php echo's: 1833 requests per sec.
Smarty tpl: 138 requests per sec.

I was expecting some penalty for using a template engine but not that much. There must be something wrong in the way I perform the benchmark. Or the way I enable caching.

Plain php test file:
Code:
<?php echo "Name: $name\n"; ?>
<?php echo "Address: $address"; ?>

Smarty files:
Code:
$smarty_path="/var/lib/smarty";

require('smarty3/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty();

$smarty->setTemplateDir($smarty_path.'/templates');
$smarty->setCompileDir($smarty_path.'/templates_c');
$smarty->setCacheDir($smarty_path.'/cache');
$smarty->setConfigDir($smarty_path.'/configs');
$smarty->setCaching(Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_CURRENT);

$smarty->assign('name', 'george smith');
$smarty->assign('address', '45th & Harris');

$smarty->display('index.tpl');

index.tpl
Code:

Name: {$name}
Address: {$address}
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esperlu
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have made a couple of tests and the smarty caching seems to work ok but the perf. are still lagging.

I compared plain html, smarty and a lightweight template engine (rainTPL). I know that these two template engines are not to be compared as rainTPL is missing a lot of features that smarty has. RainTPL with its 8 tags and 3 methods is only suited for simple sites. But it is fast.

Testing method:
ab -n 100 -c 10 <url>

Plain html: 2700 requests per sec.
rainTPL: 392 requests per sec.
smarty3: 119 requests per sec.

As I will probably be choosing smarty for its power and feature list, I was wondering if I could fine tune it to make it snappier.
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ndorphin
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Joined: 24 Dec 2009
Posts: 15
Location: Berlin, Germany

PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this simple test case doesn't profit from caching? I use smarty caching for really complex pages, without caching the renderring time is some seconds, with smarty caching ~0.2 seconds. Generally smarty caching is not the solution to speed up any page (there are others like proxy etc), it's more an additional benfit if you need the options of a complex template engine...

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