Smarty in CI

[eluser]Sam Dark[/eluser]
Caching
Yes. Smarty's caching is very flexible. I want to see something like it in CI.

Security
If you are serious about letting designer to edit templates — yes. It's a benefit. But I don't think it's a good idea.

Compiling and Performance
Yes, it comples a lot of templates to one php-template. But even using this it checks if template compliled and loaded itself. So there is still some notable overhead.