On the Speed of ReST

[Jane Austine]

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1053406650.22537.python-list at python.org>...
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 22:54, Jane Austine wrote:
> > I'm trying to use ReST in my wiki-like system, in order to avoid
> > reinventing the wheel. However, some people reported ReST is
> > impractically slow for dynamic HTML generation on the fly. Most
> > Python-based wikis mainly use re.sub instead of statemachine as in
> > ReST. Is it slow because of that?
> 
> Yes, ReST is very slow.  I made a play Wiki with ReST, and generated the
> HTML everytime the document was edited.  Intrawiki links were phrased
> like <a href="!wikiname">...</a>, and then I used a regex to search and
> replace these when the page was actually rendered (fixing the links and
> applying the correct style depending on whether the page existed).  That
> worked fine, and fast enough.
> 
>   Ian


Thank you, but I don't understand it exactly. Does the reST produce a
HTML and then regex replaces some part of the result? Are the
intrawiki links what users type in or are they produced from reST?