Add an intermediate cache for Twig templates to avoid regenerating identical templates

Created on 29 May 2015, about 10 years ago

Updated 11 June 2025, 13 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Steps to reproduce.

Install 8.x
drush pm-uninstall page_cache
Visit front page
drush cr
Visit front page again
Notice (in xhprof) that twig templates have to be compiled again - takes more than 1 second on my machine.

Proposed resolution

Add an intermediate cache, probably using FileCache. Check there first before re-compiling.

There are two things that determine the compiled template;

1. The contents of the twig template (easy)
2. Any changes to how Twig compiles the templates (not so easy to account for and I'm not up to date on that at all)

Additionally, consider whether it is worth pre-compiling these in the d.o packaging script.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

📌 Task

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

theme system

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🇬🇧United Kingdom catch

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Comment 13 days ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

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