Doron yes it would be but you can't have templates if they are to be stored in the php files themselves, kind of throws the whole template idea out the window.

Jim your referring to the template cache hack? I incorporated cacheing into this one also. Again I didn't say it would help, it would just be interesting to see if it is faster or slower on a big forum.

The question is: Is it quicker to read the template from disk or to retrieve the template via SQL. Does this change when 100 people are grabbing the template from disc vs 100 people grabbing the template from MySql.