I'm not sure I understand that. Around 2002-2003, I built a gigantic, sub-optimal, regex-heavy Perl script for automatic updating of webcomic sites (it's still

I'm not sure I understand that. Around 2002-2003, I built a gigantic, sub-optimal, regex-heavy Perl script for automatic updating of webcomic sites (it's still in use on several sites I know of, ugh). Each day of the archive had its own separate HTML page generated from a template. I never got around to the complexity of supporting selective updates, because brute-force regenerating the entire archive every time the script ran, even to several thousand comics, took just seconds on anything but Windows (whose file I/O was just too bloody slow, but even then the run only took a minute or so).