Quick Mode

To render in quick mode, add the command line option --quick.

Quick mode dramatically speeds up rendering by making a pretty heroic assumption: the target of a .page file is up to date if the timestamp of the .page file and the timestamps of all the files referenced in its [content] table are less than the timestamp of the target.

Since SSG makes the data associated with all pages available to the template of every page and any change to the templates themselves can affect any page, this is certainly not a generally valid assumption. For many editing tasks, however, it is possible, knowing how the content is structured, to determine that the assumption is actually valid and thus take advantage of the faster rendering.

For smaller sites, where a full rendering often costs well under a hundred milliseconds, quick mode is probably not worth the effort. For very large sites, however, the quick rendering may be worth the added complexity for appropriate editing tasks.