diff --git a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
index c70f42a63..d2a525daa 100644
--- a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 7.3.12
+ - Performance enhancement added to Page Layouts to make them do template
+   processing twice as fast.
  - fix: Fixing bad link on the Event page to the search engine. Added a new
    Event template variable called urlSearch to handle it.  (perlDreamer Consulting, LLC)
  - fix: Set default groupIdEditEvent to groupIdEdit during upgrade (perlDreamer Consulting, LLC)
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/Layout.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/Layout.pm
index 903508316..41a66e632 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/Layout.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/Layout.pm
@@ -239,7 +239,6 @@ sub view {
 			';
 	}
 	my $showPerformance = $self->session->errorHandler->canShowPerformanceIndicators();
-	my $out = $self->processTemplate($self->{_viewVars},undef,$self->{_viewTemplate});
 	my @parts = split("~~~",$self->processTemplate($self->{_viewVars},undef,$self->{_viewTemplate}));
 	my $output = "";
 	foreach my $part (@parts) {