EJS vs doT (v15)

Revision 15 of this benchmark created by aw on

Description

A brief comparison of some JavaScript templating engines on a short template: 6 header tags, and 10 list items.

Note: When adding a new test, please ensure that your test returns the same HTML string (or equivalent DOM fragment) as the others.

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doT.js"></script>
<script src="http://embeddedjavascript.googlecode.com/files/ejs_0.9_alpha_1_production.js"></script>

<script>
  window.sharedVariables = {
   header: "Header<.><.>",
   header2: "Header2<.><.>",
   header3: "Header2<.><.>",
   header4: "Header4<.><.>",
   header5: "Header5<.><.>",
   header6: "Header6<.><.>",
   list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
  };
  
  window.doTtemplate = doT.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{! it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{! it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{! it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{! it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{! it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{! it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{! it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>");
  
  window.ejs = new EJS({
   text: "<div><h1 class='header'><%= header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>"
  });
  
var ip = document.getElementById('insertionPoint'); 
</script>

<div id="insertionPoint"></div>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
doT.js
ip.innerHTML = doTtemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
ejs
ip.innerHTML = ejs.render(sharedVariables);
ready

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