Sunday 21 December 2003 5:30:39 pm

I chose a modular design for my site, and as a performance test, I took one of my page layout templates and combined all of the includes into one template.

The result was that the non-modular template was approximately .1 seconds faster in processing times.

This was before I had enabled cache blocks, and it rendered in 3 seconds with modular template (about 12 different templates called) and 2.9 seconds when I combined everything into one template.

After enabling cache blocks, load times are down to .8 seconds on average.

I left it modular, as the slight performance improvement was not worth the development headache of having everything combined.

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