A little benchmark comparing the speed of two Perl-based templating systems:
To run, "just" run make.
You'll need perl and carton installed.
The benchmarks vary from small one-liners to bigger units. The aim is to see
how much faster Text::Xslate is compared to Template, when told to do the
same things given the same data.
As part of each "test", it verifies that the output from both types of templates, given the same data, is the same - so we're comparing apples to apples.
Example run from my machine:
$ make
carton exec perl benchmark.pl 0.5
Function TT/s TX/s ±TX/TT ±TX/TTx
0.5s elreg_801_events_row 955.83 7859.61 +722.28% +7.22x
0.5s elreg_800_events_row 1204.80 8303.59 +589.21% +5.89x
0.5s 200_full_homepage 532.45 5135.75 +864.55% +8.65x
0.5s 101_runtime_inclusion_dynamic 1806.12 14928.16 +726.53% +7.27x
0.5s 100_runtime_inclusion 5107.42 54002.19 +957.33% +9.57x
0.5s 092_stories_list_wrapped_twice 2693.65 23063.88 +756.23% +7.56x
0.5s 091_stories_list_wrapped 1979.03 22143.03 +1018.88% +10.19x
0.5s 090_stories_list 3091.75 19702.71 +537.27% +5.37x
0.5s 031_include_without_macro_call 1728.71 33046.92 +1811.65% +18.12x
0.5s 030_include_for_macro_call 1559.42 28046.79 +1698.54% +16.99x
0.5s 020_macro_loop_data 3692.58 66671.20 +1705.54% +17.06x
0.5s 020_macro_loop 4186.85 80391.34 +1820.09% +18.20x
0.5s 011_include_small_variable 11121.05 211209.44 +1799.19% +17.99x
0.5s 010_include_small_literal 13468.77 222938.28 +1555.22% +15.55x
0.5s 005_deep_data_structure 19035.89 207136.43 +988.14% +9.88x
0.5s 004_simple_loop_if_else_constant 1665.96 15678.62 +841.12% +8.41x
0.5s 004_simple_loop_if_else 1719.08 16453.41 +857.11% +8.57x
0.5s 003_urls_pipe_uri 8207.14 69471.47 +746.48% +7.46x
0.5s 002_simple_loop_vars 5058.91 68635.39 +1256.72% +12.57x
0.5s 002_simple_loop 1765.36 15995.13 +806.06% +8.06x
0.5s 001_simple_loop 10105.90 241775.15 +2292.42% +22.92x
0.5s 001_simple_hashref 9365.64 98889.16 +955.87% +9.56x
0.5s 000_two_vars 18910.05 259079.86 +1270.06% +12.70x
0.5s 000_single_var 20107.43 321045.35 +1496.65% +14.97x
0.5s 000_reuse_macro_call 12899.76 237135.00 +1738.29% +17.38x
0.5s 000_literal_text 21577.90 371321.00 +1620.84% +16.21x
carton exec perl benchmark.pl 1
Function TT/s TX/s ±TX/TT ±TX/TTx
1s elreg_801_events_row 1087.98 9590.83 +781.52% +7.82x
1s elreg_800_events_row 1183.25 7990.54 +575.31% +5.75x
1s 200_full_homepage 431.13 4670.24 +983.27% +9.83x
1s 101_runtime_inclusion_dynamic 2850.87 22436.50 +687.00% +6.87x
1s 100_runtime_inclusion 4991.05 53384.00 +969.59% +9.70x
1s 092_stories_list_wrapped_twice 2564.53 25203.86 +882.79% +8.83x
1s 091_stories_list_wrapped 2862.19 20142.49 +603.74% +6.04x
1s 090_stories_list 2924.59 28458.26 +873.07% +8.73x
1s 031_include_without_macro_call 1973.14 33524.71 +1599.06% +15.99x
1s 030_include_for_macro_call 1489.50 29940.59 +1910.10% +19.10x
1s 020_macro_loop_data 3341.57 59345.76 +1675.99% +16.76x
1s 020_macro_loop 2168.45 76751.04 +3439.44% +34.39x
1s 011_include_small_variable 9819.71 180714.59 +1740.32% +17.40x
1s 010_include_small_literal 11813.23 210217.54 +1679.51% +16.80x
1s 005_deep_data_structure 15825.56 212695.95 +1244.00% +12.44x
1s 004_simple_loop_if_else_constant 1627.98 14046.82 +762.84% +7.63x
1s 004_simple_loop_if_else 2241.70 19211.24 +756.99% +7.57x
1s 003_urls_pipe_uri 7622.16 54098.00 +609.75% +6.10x
1s 002_simple_loop_vars 4513.68 52679.26 +1067.10% +10.67x
1s 002_simple_loop 1506.91 14390.59 +854.97% +8.55x
1s 001_simple_loop 8457.82 189942.38 +2145.76% +21.46x
1s 001_simple_hashref 7313.46 71364.34 +875.79% +8.76x
1s 000_two_vars 16630.36 288870.52 +1637.01% +16.37x
1s 000_single_var 17143.30 278697.99 +1525.70% +15.26x
1s 000_reuse_macro_call 11125.50 209345.89 +1781.68% +17.82x
1s 000_literal_text 18906.49 275176.78 +1355.46% +13.55x
carton exec perl -MTemplate -MText::Xslate -E'say "TT $Template::VERSION TX $Text::Xslate::VERSION"'
TT 3.100 TX v3.5.6The above shows Text::Xslate as being between 5-30 times faster as Template.