You NEVER EVER EVER want to compile the templates. EVER.
I wish X-Cart would remove that altogether.
What it does is go through all of your templates and replace the language variables with the current database values. Making label and text modifications to your site a bloody nightmare.
If your store was very very static and you had finished buidling it (happy with everything) then I suppose you could compile the templates for a small speed boost, but no large dynamic site would ever do this and that would be the type of site most likely to benefit from this process.
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