[ic] Re: Need to speed up page loading

[Ethan Rowe]

Jon Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Grant wrote:
>
>>>     
>>> http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2000-November/002176.html 
>>>
>>
>> Very good info.  I was surprised to see this:
>>
>> [data products image [foo-code]]
>> which is faster than
>> [data table=products column=image key="[foo-code]"]
>>
>> I've always named and quoted my parameters because I thought it was
>> faster.  Is it really faster to position them?
>
> It is, but that's one of the lower-impact optimizations Mike 
> mentioned. It's mostly relevant in very large loops, and less 
> important elsewhere.
>
>> Is PREFIX-calc faster than calc?
>
> Very much so.

And PREFIX-sub/PREFIX-exec even more so.

For large loops, removing any non-looping tags from your loop region can 
have a significant difference on performance as well.

-- 
Ethan Rowe
End Point Corporation
ethan at endpoint.com