Benchmarks

In this section we will run simple, easy to understand, mini benchmarks to find out which template parser renders faster. Keep in mind that speed is not always the case, you have to choose wisely the template parser to use because their features varies and depending your application's needs you may be forced to use an under-performant parser instead.
We will compare the following 8 template engines/parsers:
​Ace​
​Amber​
​Blocks​
​Django​
​Handlebars​
​HTML (standard html/template)​
​Jet​
​Pug​
Each benchmark test consists of a template + layout + partial + template data (map). They all have the same response amount of total bytes. Amber, Ace and Pug parsers minifies the template before render, therefore, all other template file's contents are minified too (no new lines and spaces between html blocks).
The Benchmark Code for each one of the template engines can be found at: https://github.com/kataras/iris/tree/master/_benchmarks/view.
System
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Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
RAM
15.85 GB
OS
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
​Bombardier​
v1.2.4
​Go​
go1.15.2
Terminology
Name is the name of the template engine.
Reqs/sec is the avg number of total requests could be processed per second (the higher the better).
Latency is the amount of time it takes from when a request is made by the client to the time it takes for the response to get back to that client (the smaller the better).
Throughput is the rate of production or the rate at which data are transferred (the higher the better, it depends from response length (body + headers).
Time To Complete is the total time (in seconds) the test completed (the smaller the better).
Results
📖 Fires 1000000 requests with 125 concurrent clients. It receives HTML response. The server handler sets some template data and renders a template file which consists of a layout and a partial footer.
Name
Language
Reqs/sec
Latency
Throughput
Time To Complete
​Amber​
Go
125698
0.99ms
44.67MB
7.96s
​Blocks​
Go
123974
1.01ms
43.99MB
8.07s
​Django​
Go
118831
1.05ms
42.17MB
8.41s
​Handlebars​
Go
101214
1.23ms
35.91MB
9.88s
​Pug​
Go
89002
1.40ms
31.81MB
11.24s
​Ace​
Go
64782
1.93ms
22.98MB
15.44s
​HTML​
Go
53918
2.32ms
19.13MB
18.55s
​Jet​
Go
4829
25.88ms
1.71MB
207.07s
And for those who like graphs, here you are:
As we've seen above, Amber is the fastest and Jet is the slowest one. Keep in mind that in Jet parser, we cache the templates by ourselves before server ran - its default behavior is to cache them at runtime instead, so it could be even slower natively.

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