Forum OpenACS Development: Re: TCL API vs includelets for html snippets

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5: Re: TCL API vs includelets for html snippets (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 05/17/04 10:08 PM
Templates are compiled into Tcl and the Tcl is compiled into bytecode and the result of that is cached.

The timestamp on the template is checked to make sure it hasn't changed, then the bytecode is executed.

So the overhead is minimal.