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CTPL is a template library written in C. It allows fast and easy parsing of
templates from many sources (including in-memory data and local and remote
streaming, thanks to GIO) and fine control over template parsing environment.

CTPL depends on the following libraries:
- GLib :: General purpose C utility library
- GIO  :: GLib's I/O abstraction library

* Advantages

- It is a library, then it can be easily used from programs;
- Separated lexer and parser;
- It is written in portable C;
- Simple syntax;
- Fast and strict parsing;
- Possible in-memory parsing, allowing non-file data parsing and avoiding
  I/O-latency, through GIO's GMemoryInputStream and GMemoryOutputStream.

* Disadvantages

- Since the input is first completely loaded as a token tree in memory -- which
is also one of the advantages -- , it may consume a little more memory than the
input template size.