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										 |  |  | \$use\_sub\_dirs {#variable.use.sub.dirs} | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Smarty will create subdirectories under the [compiled | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | templates](#variable.compile.dir) and [cache](#variable.cache.dir) | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | directories if `$use_sub_dirs` is set to TRUE, default is FALSE. In an | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | environment where there are potentially tens of thousands of files | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | created, this may help the filesystem speed. On the other hand, some | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | environments do not allow PHP processes to create directories, so this | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | must be disabled which is the default. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Sub directories are more efficient, so use them if you can. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | Theoretically you get much better performance on a filesystem with 10 | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | directories each having 100 files, than with 1 directory having 1000 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | files. This was certainly the case with Solaris 7 (UFS)\... with newer | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | filesystems such as ext3 and especially reiserfs, the difference is | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | almost nothing. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | > **Note**
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							|  |  |  | > -   `$use_sub_dirs=true` doesn\'t work with
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							|  |  |  | >     [safe\_mode=On](&url.php-manual;features.safe-mode), that\'s why
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							|  |  |  | >     it\'s switchable and why it\'s off by default.
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							|  |  |  | > -   `$use_sub_dirs=true` on Windows can cause problems.
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							|  |  |  | > -   Safe\_mode is being deprecated in PHP6.
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							|  |  |  | See also [`$compile_id`](#variable.compile.id), | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | [`$cache_dir`](#variable.cache.dir), and | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | [`$compile_dir`](#variable.compile.dir). |