[ic] Strange behavior when using CGI values as loop list elements
Mike Heins
mike at perusion.com
Wed Feb 25 21:43:23 UTC 2009
Quoting Mike Heins (mike at perusion.com):
> Quoting Marty Tennison (marty at dripdepot.com):
> > Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 (both threaded and non-threaded tested)
> > IC 5.6.1
> > Apache 2.x using mod_perl2 (not tested with vlink or tlink)
> > Mysql 5.0.67
> > ====================================
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been banging my head on this one for a few days.
> >
> > When I use CGI values as elements in a loop list, I'm seeing an extreme
> > slowdown. (orders of magnitude) I've tried this on the demo site but
> > unfortunately the benchmark tag is not available on the demo site. So
> > I'm not sure if this is reproducible on the demo or not. I apologize if
> > it is not but I'm wondering if what I am seeing is specific to my setup
> > or not. If anyone would like to test this, here is are the steps.
> >
> > 1) Create a test page (see contents below)
> > 2) Call the test page like this....
> > http://www.domain.com/test.html?looplist=1
> > 3) Check out the benchmark times (you'll need the benchmark tag for this)
>
> It's an illusion. These times are so small that you can't count on them.
> Try this:
>
> http://yourserver.com/test?looplist=1&numloops=100
>
> [tmp looplist]1[/tmp]
> <p>Loop using scratch variable=[scratch looplist]
> [benchmark start=1]
> [loop list="1..100" ranges=1]
Oops, old version.
%s/100/[cgi numloops]/
> [loop list="[scratch looplist]"]
> [loop-code]
> [/loop]
> [/loop]
> Elapsed time: [benchmark]</p>
>
> <hr>
>
> [value name=looplist set="1" hide=1]
> <p>Loop using value variable=[value looplist]
> [benchmark start=1]
> [loop list="1..100" ranges=1]
> [loop list="[value looplist]"]
> [loop-code]
> [/loop]
> [/loop]
> Elapsed time: [benchmark]</p>
>
>
> <hr>
>
> <p>Loop using cgi variable=[cgi looplist]
> [benchmark start=1]
> [loop list="1..100" ranges=1]
> [loop list="[cgi looplist]"]
> [loop-code]
> [/loop]
> [/loop]
> Elapsed time: [benchmark]</p>
>
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> Mike Heins
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