Just to clarify, your definition of 'better' in this example is probably defined as 'faster'.

I guess reneeb was referring to the dynamic include feature of HTC, which HTML::Template doesn't have: <tmpl_include_var name="parameter_which_contains_filename">

Note that the author of HTML::Template::Compiled Tina Mueller mentioned on the mod_perl mailing list that she wouldn't advise using H::T::C in production.

sure, but this advice wasn't meant for eternity =)