Performance and custom tags w/buffers=True

Philip Semanchuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.spyce.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,
I've been using Spyce in command line mode to generate reports. The 
runtime suddenly ballooned and I tracked it down to a custom tag I had 
written. Further experimentation showed that the tag behaved very 
differently (performance-wise) depending on whether or not I set 
buffers=True in the tag definition. I wrote a short page to illustrate 
the problem:

[[.taglib from=FooTagLibrary.spy as=foo]]
<html>
<head>
	<title>buffers test</title>
</head>
<body>
[[
for i in range(1,1000): {
]]
<p><foo:NullTag>go phillies!</foo:NullTag></p>
[[ } ]]
</body>
</html>


And here's the tag library:
[[.tagcollection ]]

[[.begin name=NullTag buffers=True singleton=False]]
[[\
pass
]]

[[.end]]

The command I use to process this page is:
spyceCmd.py -O test.spy

As you can see, this code will print out the same thing regardless of 
the buffers setting in the tag definition. When buffers=True, Spyce 
reports "elapsed to finish: 13.6263940334". (This is on a gimpy old 
Pentium 3; YMMV.) When buffers=False, Spyce runs about 25x faster 
(elapsed to finish: 0.533887863159). The only difference I can see is 
that the former spits out a lot (999) of these messages:
    cache hit (1113103628) for response in 
/usr/local/share/spyce-2.0.3/modules/response.py

Can anyone else (a) repeat these results and, better yet, (b) explain 
what's going on?

Thanks
Philip




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