rosetta-rs / template-benchmarks-rs

Collected benchmarks for templating crates written in Rust

Rust template engine benchmarks

This repo tries to assess Rust template engine performance. Following the download ratings from crates.io, these nine projects are assessed:

• write!: the std library write! macro
• Handlebars: Handlebars templating implemented in Rust
• Tera: template engine based on Jinja2/Django templates
• Liquid: the liquid templating language for Rust
• Askama: type-safe, compiled Jinja-like templates for Rust
• horrorshow: a templating library written in rust macros
• ructe: Rust Compiled Templates, efficient type-safe web page templates
• fomat: alternative syntax for print/write/format-like macros with a small templating language
• markup: A blazing fast, type-safe template engine for Rust.
• maud: A Compile-time HTML template engine for Rust.
• sailfish: Simple, small, and extremely fast template engine for Rust

Results

These results are from 2023-3-11 (rustc 1.68.0), running on an MacBook Pro 16 (2021) M1 Pro CPU. Your mileage may vary.

As a violin plot generated by Criterion:

Numbers, as output by Criterion:

Big table/Askama        time:   [330.10 µs 330.50 µs 330.95 µs]
Big table/fomat         time:   [226.79 µs 227.74 µs 228.66 µs]
Big table/Handlebars    time:   [3.6592 ms 3.6656 ms 3.6717 ms]
Big table/Horrorshow    time:   [166.35 µs 167.28 µs 168.16 µs]
Big table/Liquid        time:   [4.3793 ms 4.3828 ms 4.3864 ms]
Big table/Markup        time:   [54.963 µs 55.928 µs 56.784 µs]
Big table/Maud          time:   [71.931 µs 72.305 µs 72.697 µs]
Big table/Ructe         time:   [205.25 µs 205.70 µs 206.13 µs]
Big table/Sailfish      time:   [17.695 µs 17.711 µs 17.729 µs]
Big table/Tera          time:   [856.34 µs 857.40 µs 858.65 µs]
Big table/write         time:   [249.80 µs 250.29 µs 250.76 µs]

Teams/Askama            time:   [527.14 ns 527.87 ns 528.64 ns]
Teams/fomat             time:   [345.85 ns 346.65 ns 347.67 ns]
Teams/Handlebars        time:   [3.4753 µs 3.4808 µs 3.4860 µs]
Teams/Horrorshow        time:   [304.40 ns 305.30 ns 306.29 ns]
Teams/Liquid            time:   [4.3580 µs 4.3630 µs 4.3678 µs]
Teams/Markup            time:   [133.69 ns 134.39 ns 135.14 ns]
Teams/Maud              time:   [124.09 ns 124.53 ns 125.07 ns]
Teams/Ructe             time:   [461.57 ns 462.53 ns 463.52 ns]
Teams/Sailfish          time:   [89.921 ns 90.015 ns 90.100 ns]
Teams/Tera              time:   [3.0020 µs 3.0062 µs 3.0105 µs]
Teams/write             time:   [478.97 ns 480.01 ns 481.01 ns]

Running the benchmarks

$ cargo bench

Plots will be rendered if gnuplot is installed and will be available in the target/criterion folder.