Smarty

[tenori]

Hi everyone,

Smarty is taking around 1 second to render our templates (we're hosting in Google AppEngine if that makes any difference), and I'm trying to find out why

Locally the performance is significantly better though still fairly long (0.2 seconds), and the templates don't seem crazy complicated and the page is small. I've tried removing various bits from the template but there doesn't seem to be any one culprit.

If I turn on debugging, this is what I see:

marty 3.1.33 Debug Console - "file:cms_index.tpl" Total Time 0.98546
included templates & config files (load time in seconds)
/srv/templates/cms_index.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.68710) (cache 0.00000)
/srv/templates/cms_header.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.16921) (cache 0.00000)
/srv/templates/google_analytics.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.04287) (cache 0.00000)
/srv/templates/cms_topmenu.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.04959) (cache 0.00000)
/srv/templates/start-market.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.04356) (cache 0.00000)
/srv/templates/cms_footer.tpl
(compile 0.00000) (render 0.06557) (cache 0.00000)

Any ideas what I should be looking at?

I've turned compile_check off, turned merge_compiled_includes on, we're not using caching (we could only use this on a small subset of pages anyway), not sure what else to look for?

Thanks

J

[AnrDaemon]

My first guess is likely because in AppEngine it compiling templates every time, while locally it is using caching.

[tenori]

Thanks for the suggestion AnrDaemon How do I check that?

The trace shows 0 time being spent compiling (after the first load), and I'd disabled compile_check so I don't *think* that's the case - but could obviously be wrong here!

[AnrDaemon]

I don't have a ready answer, sorry.
Usually, I just inspect with my own eyes.