diff --git a/html/template/HtmlTemplateCache.h b/html/template/HtmlTemplateCache.h
index 3c1164f..6681e22 100755
--- a/html/template/HtmlTemplateCache.h
+++ b/html/template/HtmlTemplateCache.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void html_template_find(const char* path, va_list args) {
     char** paths = va_arg(args, char**);
     uint32* path_count = va_arg(args, uint32*);
     uint32* max_path_count = va_arg(args, uint32*);
+    uint32* total_file_size = va_arg(args, uint32*);
     RingMemory* ring = va_arg(args, RingMemory*);
 
     if (path_count == max_path_count) {
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ void html_template_find(const char* path, va_list args) {
         *paths = new_paths;
     }
 
+    *total_file_size += file_size(path);
     str_copy_short(paths[*path_count], path, 256);
     ++(*path_count);
 }
@@ -57,11 +59,16 @@ void html_template_cache_init(HtmlTemplateCache* cache, const char* basedir, Buf
     uint32 max_path_count = 1000;
     uint32 path_count = 0;
     char* paths = (char *) ring_get_memory(ring, max_path_count * 256 * sizeof(char), 8, true);
+    uint32 total_file_size = 0;
 
-    iterate_directory(basedir, ".tpl.html", html_template_find, &paths, &path_count, &max_path_count, ring);
+    iterate_directory(basedir, ".tpl.html", html_template_find, &paths, &path_count, &max_path_count, &total_file_size, ring);
+    cache->cache_size = (uint64) (total_file_size * 1.2);
+    cache->cache = (byte *) buffer_get_memory(buf, cache->cache_size, 64, true);
 
-    perfect_hashmap_create(&cache->hm, path_count, sizeof(uint32), buf);
-    perfect_hashmap_prepare(&cache->hm, (const char**) paths, path_count, 10000, ring);
+    perfect_hashmap_create(&cache->hm, path_count, sizeof(PerfectHashEntryInt32), buf);
+    perfect_hashmap_prepare(&cache->hm, (const char*) paths, path_count, 256, 10000, ring);
+
+    LOG_1("Created HtmlTemplateCache with %n B for %n templates with %n B in uncompressed file size", {{LOG_DATA_INT64, &cache->cache_size}, {LOG_DATA_INT32, &path_count}, {LOG_DATA_INT32, &total_file_size}});
 }
 
 bool html_template_in_control_structure(const char* str, const char** controls, int32 control_length) {
@@ -92,9 +99,12 @@ void html_template_cache_load(HtmlTemplateCache* cache, const char* key, const c
     // All-in-all let's consider this a pre-pass that we might want to move to the lexer in the future but I don't think so
     int32 in_control_structure = 0;
     while (*str) {
-        if (!in_control_structure && str_is_empty(*str)) {
-            ++str;
+        if (!in_control_structure && str_is_eol(*str)) {
+            str_skip_eol(&str);
+        } else if (!in_control_structure && str_is_empty(*str)) {
+            // @performance This keeps <tag> </tag> whitespaces, which we don't want and could optimize away
             str_skip_empty(&str);
+            --str;
         }
 
         if (!in_control_structure
@@ -136,9 +146,6 @@ void html_template_cache_load(HtmlTemplateCache* cache, const char* key, const c
 
     ASSERT_SIMPLE(((uintptr_t) ast) % 64 == 0);
     perfect_hashmap_insert(&cache->hm, key, (int32) ((uintptr_t) ast - (uintptr_t) cache->cache));
-
-    // @todo This belongs to wherever we want to output the user specified template
-    //interpret(ast, &context_stack);
 }
 
 static
@@ -146,14 +153,28 @@ void html_template_cache_iter(const char* path, va_list args) {
     HtmlTemplateCache* cache = va_arg(args, HtmlTemplateCache*);
     RingMemory* ring = va_arg(args, RingMemory*);
 
+    char full_path[MAX_PATH];
+    relative_to_absolute(path, full_path);
+
     FileBody file = {};
-    file_read(path, &file, ring);
+    file_read(full_path, &file, ring);
 
     html_template_cache_load(cache, path, (const char *) file.content);
 }
 
 void html_template_cache_load_all(HtmlTemplateCache* cache, const char* basedir, RingMemory* ring) {
     iterate_directory(basedir, ".tpl.html", html_template_cache_iter, cache, ring);
+    LOG_1("Loaded all html templates with %n in cache size", {{LOG_DATA_INT32, &cache->cache_pos}});
+}
+
+HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_cache_get(HtmlTemplateCache* cache, const char* key)
+{
+    PerfectHashEntryInt32* entry = (PerfectHashEntryInt32 *) perfect_hashmap_get_entry(&cache->hm, key);
+    if (!entry) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return (HtmlTemplateASTNode *) (cache->cache + entry->value);
 }
 
 #endif
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diff --git a/html/template/HtmlTemplateInterpreter.h b/html/template/HtmlTemplateInterpreter.h
index db872eb..d5f7996 100755
--- a/html/template/HtmlTemplateInterpreter.h
+++ b/html/template/HtmlTemplateInterpreter.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct HtmlTemplateValue {
         bool boolValue;
         int64 int64Value;
         f64 f64Value;
-        char* ptrValue;
+        const char* ptrValue;
     };
 };
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct HtmlTemplateVariable {
         bool boolValue;
         int64 int64Value;
         f64 f64Value;
-        char* ptrValue;
+        const char* ptrValue;
     };
 };
 
@@ -269,29 +269,40 @@ bool html_template_condition_eval(HtmlTemplateASTNode *node, HtmlTemplateContext
 }
 
 // @todo should take in a buffer for template output
-// @performance, what if there is no template data, just html? -> a simple pointer to the resource data should be created?!
-// This would maybe allow us to also return files in the future
-void html_template_interpret(HtmlTemplateASTNode *node, HtmlTemplateContextStack *context_stack) {
+int32 html_template_interpret(HtmlTemplateASTNode *node, char* buffer, int32 buffer_size, HtmlTemplateContextStack *context_stack) {
+    int32 out_length = 0;
+
     switch (node->type) {
+        case NODE_RAW:
+            // @performance If the entire file is raw we shouldn't have to copy the text over
+            memcpy(buffer, node->ptrValue, node->value_length);
+            out_length += node->value_length;
+
+            if (node->right) {
+                out_length += html_template_interpret(node->right, buffer + node->value_length, buffer_size - node->value_length, context_stack);
+            }
+            break;
         case NODE_ASSIGN:
             // Handle assignment
             break;
         case NODE_IF:
             // Handle if statement
-            html_template_interpret(node->left, context_stack); // Condition
-            html_template_interpret(node->right, context_stack); // Body
+            html_template_interpret(node->left, buffer, buffer_size, context_stack); // Condition
+            html_template_interpret(node->right, buffer, buffer_size, context_stack); // Body
             break;
         case NODE_FOR:
             // Handle for loop
-            html_template_interpret(node->left, context_stack); // Init
+            html_template_interpret(node->left, buffer, buffer_size, context_stack); // Init
             while (html_template_condition_eval(node->right->left, context_stack)) { // Condition
-                html_template_interpret(node->right->right, context_stack); // Body
-                html_template_interpret(node->right->left->right, context_stack); // Update
+                html_template_interpret(node->right->right, buffer, buffer_size, context_stack); // Body
+                html_template_interpret(node->right->left->right, buffer, buffer_size, context_stack); // Update
             }
             break;
         default:
             break;
     }
+
+    return out_length;
 }
 
 #endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/html/template/HtmlTemplateParser.h b/html/template/HtmlTemplateParser.h
index ea20617..3dd6fb3 100755
--- a/html/template/HtmlTemplateParser.h
+++ b/html/template/HtmlTemplateParser.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ enum HtmlTemplateNodeType : byte {
     NODE_BINOP,
     NODE_PTR,
     NODE_IDENTIFIER,
+    NODE_RAW,
     NODE_BOOL,
     NODE_INTEGER64,
     NODE_FLOAT64,
@@ -71,14 +72,14 @@ struct HtmlTemplateASTNode {
         bool boolValue;
         int64 int64Value;
         f64 f64Value;
-        char* ptrValue;
+        const char* ptrValue;
     };
 };
 
 HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_node_create(HtmlTemplateNodeType type, HtmlTemplateToken* token, byte** memory) {
-    *memory = (byte *) ROUND_TO_NEAREST((uintptr_t) memory, 32);
+    *memory = (byte *) ROUND_TO_NEAREST((uintptr_t) *memory, 32);
     HtmlTemplateASTNode* node = (HtmlTemplateASTNode *) *memory;
-    *memory = (byte *) ROUND_TO_NEAREST((uintptr_t) (memory + sizeof(HtmlTemplateASTNode)), 32);
+    *memory = (byte *) ROUND_TO_NEAREST((uintptr_t) (*memory + sizeof(HtmlTemplateASTNode)), 32);
 
     node->type = type;
     node->left = NULL;
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_node_create(HtmlTemplateNodeType type, HtmlTe
     node->value_length = token->length;
 
     // @question instead of handling the parsing below, why not handle it here for known types such as int, float, bool, string
-    memcpy(&node->int64Value, token->value, sizeof(uintptr_t));
+    node->ptrValue = token->value;
 
     return node;
 }
@@ -180,20 +181,20 @@ HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_assignment_parse(const char** input, HtmlTemp
     return html_template_node_create(NODE_ASSIGN, {}, memory);
 }
 
-HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_if(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* contextStack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
-    HtmlTemplateContext newContext = peekContext(contextStack);
+HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_if(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* context_stack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
+    HtmlTemplateContext newContext = peekContext(context_stack);
     ++newContext.scope_level;
-    pushContext(contextStack, newContext);
+    pushContext(context_stack, newContext);
 
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume 'if'
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '('
     HtmlTemplateASTNode* condition = html_template_expression_parse(input, token_current, context_flag, memory);
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume ')'
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '{'
-    HtmlTemplateASTNode* body = html_template_statement_parse(input, token_current, contextStack, context_flag, memory);
+    HtmlTemplateASTNode* body = html_template_statement_parse(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '}'
 
-    popContext(contextStack);
+    popContext(context_stack);
 
     HtmlTemplateASTNode* ifNode = html_template_node_create(NODE_IF, {}, memory);
     ifNode->left = condition; // Condition
@@ -202,11 +203,11 @@ HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_if(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToke
     return ifNode;
 }
 
-HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_for(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* contextStack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
-    HtmlTemplateContext newContext = peekContext(contextStack);
+HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_for(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* context_stack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
+    HtmlTemplateContext newContext = peekContext(context_stack);
     ++newContext.scope_level;
     ++newContext.loop_nesting_level;
-    pushContext(contextStack, newContext);
+    pushContext(context_stack, newContext);
 
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume 'for'
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '('
@@ -216,10 +217,10 @@ HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_for(const char** input, HtmlTemplateTok
     HtmlTemplateASTNode* update = html_template_assignment_parse(input, token_current, context_flag, memory);
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume ')'
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '{'
-    HtmlTemplateASTNode* body = html_template_statement_parse(input, token_current, contextStack, context_flag, memory);
+    HtmlTemplateASTNode* body = html_template_statement_parse(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
     *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume '}'
 
-    popContext(contextStack);
+    popContext(context_stack);
 
     HtmlTemplateASTNode* forNode = html_template_node_create(NODE_FOR, {}, memory);
     forNode->left = init;       // Initialization
@@ -231,14 +232,28 @@ HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_parse_for(const char** input, HtmlTemplateTok
     return forNode;
 }
 
-HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_statement_parse(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* contextStack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
-    if (token_current->type == TOKEN_ASSIGN) {
+HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_html_parse(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* context_stack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
+    HtmlTemplateASTNode* html = html_template_node_create(NODE_RAW, token_current, memory);
+
+    *token_current = html_template_token_next(input, context_flag); // Consume html
+    if (token_current->type != TOKEN_EOF) {
+        html->right = html_template_statement_parse(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
+    }
+
+    return html;
+}
+
+HtmlTemplateASTNode* html_template_statement_parse(const char** input, HtmlTemplateToken* token_current, HtmlTemplateContextStack* context_stack, HtmlTemplateContextFlag context_flag, byte** memory) {
+    if (token_current->type == TOKEN_HTML) {
+        return html_template_html_parse(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
+    } else if (token_current->type == TOKEN_ASSIGN) {
         return html_template_assignment_parse(input, token_current, context_flag, memory);
     } else if (token_current->type == TOKEN_IF) {
-        return html_template_parse_if(input, token_current, contextStack, context_flag, memory);
+        return html_template_parse_if(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
     } else if (token_current->type == TOKEN_FOR) {
-        return html_template_parse_for(input, token_current, contextStack, context_flag, memory);
+        return html_template_parse_for(input, token_current, context_stack, context_flag, memory);
     } else {
+        ASSERT_SIMPLE(false);
         exit(1);
     }
 }
diff --git a/platform/linux/FileUtils.cpp b/platform/linux/FileUtils.cpp
index 42034bf..5f630a2 100755
--- a/platform/linux/FileUtils.cpp
+++ b/platform/linux/FileUtils.cpp
@@ -112,8 +112,17 @@ void relative_to_absolute(const char* __restrict rel, char* __restrict path)
 inline
 uint64 file_size(const char* filename) {
     struct stat buffer;
-    if (stat(filename, &buffer) != 0) {
-        return 0;
+
+    if (*filename == '.') {
+        char full_path[MAX_PATH];
+        relative_to_absolute(filename, full_path);
+        if (stat(full_path, &buffer) != 0) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+    } else {
+        if (stat(filename, &buffer) != 0) {
+            return 0;
+        }
     }
 
     return buffer.st_size;
@@ -123,7 +132,14 @@ inline
 uint64 file_last_modified(const char* filename)
 {
     struct stat buffer;
-    stat(filename, &buffer);
+
+    if (*filename == '.') {
+        char full_path[MAX_PATH];
+        relative_to_absolute(filename, full_path);
+        stat(full_path, &buffer);
+    } else {
+        stat(filename, &buffer);
+    }
 
     return (uint64) buffer.st_mtime;
 }
@@ -378,11 +394,14 @@ void self_path(char* path) {
     }
 }
 
-void iterate_directory(const char *base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*handler)(const char *, va_list), ...) {
+void iterate_directory(const char* base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*handler)(const char *, va_list), ...) {
     va_list args;
     va_start(args, handler);
 
-    DIR *dir = opendir(base_path);
+    char full_base_path[MAX_PATH];
+    relative_to_absolute(base_path, full_base_path);
+
+    DIR* dir = opendir(full_base_path);
     if (!dir) {
         return;
     }
@@ -397,15 +416,20 @@ void iterate_directory(const char *base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*ha
             continue;
         }
 
-        char full_path[1024];
+        char full_path[MAX_PATH];
         // @performance This is bad, we are internally moving two times too often to the end of full_path
         //      Maybe make str_copy_short return the length, same as append?
         str_copy_short(full_path, base_path);
-        str_concat_append(full_path, "/");
+        if (!str_ends_with(base_path, "/")) {
+            str_concat_append(full_path, "/");
+        }
         str_concat_append(full_path, entry->d_name);
 
+        char full_file_path[MAX_PATH];
+        relative_to_absolute(full_path, full_file_path);
+
         struct stat statbuf;
-        if (stat(full_path, &statbuf) == -1) {
+        if (stat(full_file_path, &statbuf) == -1) {
             continue;
         }
 
diff --git a/platform/win32/FileUtils.cpp b/platform/win32/FileUtils.cpp
index b7dcfe8..b433103 100755
--- a/platform/win32/FileUtils.cpp
+++ b/platform/win32/FileUtils.cpp
@@ -829,13 +829,16 @@ inline void self_path(char* path)
     GetModuleFileNameA(NULL, (LPSTR) path, MAX_PATH);
 }
 
-void iterate_directory(const char *base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*handler)(const char *, void *), ...) {
+void iterate_directory(const char* base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*handler)(const char *, void *), ...) {
     va_list args;
     va_start(args, handler);
 
+    char full_base_path[MAX_PATH];
+    relative_to_absolute(base_path, full_base_path);
+
     WIN32_FIND_DATA find_file_data;
     char search_path[MAX_PATH];
-    snprintf(search_path, MAX_PATH, "%s\\*", base_path);
+    snprintf(search_path, MAX_PATH, "%s\\*", full_base_path);
 
     HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFile(search_path, &find_file_data);
     if (hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
@@ -855,7 +858,9 @@ void iterate_directory(const char *base_path, const char* file_ending, void (*ha
         // @performance This is bad, we are internally moving two times too often to the end of full_path
         //      Maybe make str_copy_short return the length, same as append?
         str_copy_short(full_path, base_path);
-        str_concat_append(full_path, "/");
+        if (!str_ends_with(base_path, "/")) {
+            str_concat_append(full_path, "/");
+        }
         str_concat_append(full_path, entry->d_name);
 
         if (find_file_data.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
diff --git a/stdlib/HashMap.h b/stdlib/HashMap.h
index 37a5fa7..8a519ed 100755
--- a/stdlib/HashMap.h
+++ b/stdlib/HashMap.h
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ int64 hashmap_size(const HashMap* hm) noexcept
 /////////////////////////////
 // string key
 /////////////////////////////
+// @performance We could greatly improve the hashmap performance by ensuring that a uniquely hashed entry always starts at a cacheline
+//      If another hash results in the same index that should be at the cacheline + 32 position (if 32 bit size)
+//      This would ensure for those elements that if there is one collision we at least don't have to read another cache line
+//      Of course for more than 1 collision we would still need to load multiple cachelines, but ideally that shouldn't happen too often
 void hashmap_insert(HashMap* hm, const char* key, int32 value) noexcept {
     uint64 index = hash_djb2(key) % hm->buf.count;
 
diff --git a/stdlib/PerfectHashMap.h b/stdlib/PerfectHashMap.h
index 7af5124..1417757 100755
--- a/stdlib/PerfectHashMap.h
+++ b/stdlib/PerfectHashMap.h
@@ -108,6 +108,49 @@ PerfectHashMap* perfect_hashmap_prepare(PerfectHashMap* hm, const char** keys, i
     }
 
     ASSERT_SIMPLE(false);
+    LOG_1("Couldn't create perfect hashmap");
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+// Same code as above with the difference that we are using a fixed length key array instead of an array of pointers
+PerfectHashMap* perfect_hashmap_prepare(PerfectHashMap* hm, const char* keys, int32 key_count, int32 key_length, int32 seed_tries, RingMemory* ring)
+{
+    int32* indices = (int32 *) ring_get_memory(ring, hm->map_count * sizeof(int32), 4);
+    bool is_unique = false;
+
+    for (uint32 i = 0; i < ARRAY_COUNT(PERFECT_HASH_FUNCTIONS); ++i) {
+        int32 seed;
+        int32 c = 0;
+
+        while (!is_unique && c < seed_tries) {
+            is_unique = true;
+            seed = rand();
+            memset(indices, 0, hm->map_count * sizeof(int32));
+
+            for (int32 j = 0; j < key_count; ++j) {
+                int32 index = (PERFECT_HASH_FUNCTIONS[i])(&keys[j * key_length], seed) % hm->map_count;
+                if (indices[index]) {
+                    is_unique = false;
+                    break;
+                } else {
+                    indices[index] = 1;
+                }
+            }
+
+            ++c;
+        }
+
+        if (is_unique) {
+            hm->hash_seed = seed;
+            hm->hash_function = PERFECT_HASH_FUNCTIONS[i];
+
+            return hm;
+        }
+    }
+
+    ASSERT_SIMPLE(false);
+    LOG_1("Couldn't create perfect hashmap");
 
     return NULL;
 }
diff --git a/utils/StringUtils.h b/utils/StringUtils.h
index 59acd69..5de0068 100755
--- a/utils/StringUtils.h
+++ b/utils/StringUtils.h
@@ -1285,6 +1285,12 @@ bool str_is_empty(const char str) noexcept
     return str == ' ' || str == '\t' || str == '\n' || str == '\r';
 }
 
+inline
+bool str_is_eol(const char str) noexcept
+{
+    return str == '\n' || str == '\r';
+}
+
 inline
 void str_skip_empty(const char** str) noexcept
 {
@@ -1293,6 +1299,14 @@ void str_skip_empty(const char** str) noexcept
     }
 }
 
+inline
+void str_skip_eol(const char** str) noexcept
+{
+    while (**str == '\n' || **str == '\r')  {
+        ++(*str);
+    }
+}
+
 inline
 void str_skip_non_empty(const char** str) noexcept
 {