async plugins and async/stream'n'pipe in general

[oleics]

Hallo,

first of all: Awesome! Finally a port of Smarty for node. Thank you.

I have some questions:

Lets say i have this:

var tpl = nsmarty.assign('test.tpl', $arr)
tpl.on('data', function(chunk) {
})

Is chunk really a small chunk, or is it always the rendered template as a whole? Respective: Is the data-event fired more than once, or does it fire only once?

And what about async plugins? Are they supported? And if they are, is the output of the plugin buffered and emited as a whole, or is the output small chunks too?

To break the above down into one question: Does NSmarty support asynchronous programming style and the stream-api of nodejs to the fullest?

Regards, Oliver.