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After Burner VS Gantry

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  • After Burner VS Gantry

    Posted 13 years 6 months ago
    • I have been testing various Rocket themes and it seems that the Gantry based themes can and will never be as fast as the afterburner template. Is there a super fast Gantry theme available that performs close to the afterburner template ?

      I have run these side by side and the afterburner runs our system 70 percent faster than a gantry theme. We have tired all the cache and Gzip and nothing seems to get it up to speed. I see this being a huge huge draw back to using gantry.
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    Re: After Burner VS Gantry

    Posted 13 years 6 months ago
    • Afterburner is bare-bones. There's really no configuration options and it's basically a simple template without the options or the power of Gantry. Gantry is a very powerful framework that lets you easily modify loads of options, and also easily extend a template and add powerful functionality.

      Now that said, you can make Gantry much faster by removing the bits you are not going to use, basically this is all done by removing chunks of features from the configuration XML. This is not a trivial thing but we removed a bunch of stuff from gantry-framework.org and that runs very fast.

      We do however plan on focusing on performance even more in the upcoming Gantry 4 release (no date yet!).
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  • Re: After Burner VS Gantry

    Posted 13 years 6 months ago
    • When you say the configuration XML file are you referring to the templateDetails.xml file ?

      Also when you say remove features what exactly do you mean ? Features within the Gantry Back-end ? For example Smart Load etc ?

      I love Gantry and Rocket themes but we are experiencing Indexing issues due to slow speeds. We have a dedicated cloud server system so I know its not our networking setup. Furthermore our other templates from rocket-themes that are not built on Gantry fly. I would really like to figure out how to adjust this so we can get some of these templates to speed up.
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