templates

[thakadu]

Yes I looked at that but I did not benchmark it. Basically it seems to
convert the Meld or part of a Meld into a %s template in any case and I
already knew that %s performace was very good. So if I had used PyMeld
combined with %s then sure it would be much faster but I wanted to
benchmark a pure PyMeld approach against a pure %s approach.

You are right thought that this could significantly speed things up if
one was prepared to use a dual approach (less clean but I would still
use it if it was convenient).