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Lightning talk about the new Python-based template language called Spitfire. Given at the Plone Conference 2007 in Naples, Italy by Alexander Limi — http://limi.net
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AllTemplate
LanguagesSuck
aka
Why another template
language?
Because we can™
(Who’s “we”?)
Mike / YouTube
(f**king genius)
Yours truly
(markup obsessive)
Also, because
AllTemplate
LanguagesSuck
Why do they suck?
Let me count the ways…
Either they look like this
UGLY
<p class=”<?php someClass() ?>”><?php callSomeFunction() ?></p>
Or they perform like this
We can do better
We want
NICE
<p tal:content=”context/something”
>Text goes here</p>
and
What are your current options?
•TAL
•Genshi
•Myghty/Mako
•Cheetah
•Your own
Let’s do a simple benchmark
Standardized test
bigtable.pyhttp://genshi.edgewall.org/wik
i/GenshiPerformance
· obviously synthetic· 10×1000 table render
· measures pure throughput
Rendering times
100% Python goodness
Current version:
Compiler: ~2000 LoC
Runtime: 150 LoC
Compiles templates to
bytecode
Pluggable syntax
Both XML and text modes
Rendering times
Rendering times
Rendering times