Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Making Frontier faster by caching html code

Author:	Dave Winer
Posted:	5/26/1999; 8:34:38 AM
Topic:	Making Frontier faster by caching html code
Msg #:	6733 (In response to 6725)
Prev/Next:	6732 / 6734

We're doing this kind of stuff. The key has been specifying elements in XML-formatted text, watching mod dates, and when the text changed, recompile the structure. The UIs run off the compiled structure. It's much faster than the navBar macro which runs off outlines.

There is no automatic way to optimize performance for all pages on all sites. But if you want to have a fast site, there are techniques you can use that give you the benefits of dynamic sites, but factor out recompilation of data.

It's complicated stuff, by its nature, not for the faint of heart. But there are packaged higher-level apps possible. Manila uses a lot of these techniques, and you don't need to know any scripting to use it.

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