On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Claude Brisson <
claude@...> wrote:
> Yes. The Compilable paradigm is optional in the JSR223 specs, one could
> consider template parsing itself as a compilation step, but it sounds
> rather artificial - it's a caching process, with different caching
> strategies which can be configured, and VTL remains an interpreted
> language. Better leave aside this feature.
>
+1
>
> Claude
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:46:48 -0700
> Nathan Bubna <
nbubna@...> wrote:
>
> > Templates are not compiled into any other language (bytecode or
> > otherwise). They are interpreted into an AST which is then typically
> > cached. Many years ago, experiments in compilation failed to produce
> > any worthwhile benefit over a cached AST, no one has attempted it
> > since for any java template engine i'm familiar with.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Dishara Wijewardana
> > <
ddwijewardana@...> wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > > In JSR 223,
> > > It has a concept of compiledScript which is a script compiled by the
> > > Compilable class. Then that compiled script is used to do
> > > engine.evaluate()
> > >
> > > Does velocity engine compile a script before evaluating or does it
> > > has at least such functionality as an optional one ?
> > > As far as I understand this compilation means probably a kind of
> > > ANTLR like compiler which compiles the script grammer.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks
> > > /Dishara
> >
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Thanks
/Dishara
