TT performance really can be a bitch. When I'm profiling Catalyst apps to improve performance I pretty much always assume that the first set of hotspots I'll fi

TT performance really can be a bitch. When I'm profiling Catalyst apps to improve performance I pretty much always assume that the first set of hotspots I'll find will be either Template Toolkit or waiting for database queries. The controller code and the Catalyst stack itself very rarely show up noticeably - and I'd suspect that Catalyst being the heaviest (or most featureful, depending on how you want to lookat it :) of the currently popular frameworks that that's likely to be true of everything else as well.