jQuery Template table performance (v6)

Revision 6 of this benchmark created by Sharath Satish on

Description

To test performance of jQuery template for outputting 100 rows each with 10 columns where the columns have fields that can trigger events.

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $('body').delegate('#table .edit a, #table .select a', 'click', function() {
      var $td = $(this).closest('td');
      $td.find('input, select').show();
      $td.find('a').hide();
    });

    $('body').delegate('#table .edit .cancel, $table .select .cancel', 'click', function() {
      var $td = $(this).closest('td');
      $td.find('input, select').hide();
      $td.find('a').show();
    });
  });
</script>
<script type="text/x-jquery-tmpl" id="tmplRow">
<tr> 
  <td> <input type = "checkbox" value = "${id}" /> </td>
  <td>${firstName} ${lastName}</td> 
  <td class = "edit"> 
    <a> Edit </a>
    <input style="display:none;" type="hidden" value="Blah" /> 
    <input class = "cancel" type = "button" value = "cancel" /> 
  </td>
  <td class="select">
      <a>Select</a> 
      <select style = "display:none;"> 
        <option>0</option>
        <option>1</option> 
        <option>2</option>
        <option>3</option> 
        <option>4</option>
        <option>5</option> 
        <option>6</option>
        <option>7</option> 
        <option>8</option>
        <option>9</option> 
        <option>10</option>
       </select> 
       <input class = "cancel" type = "button" value = "cancel" /> 
   </td>
   <td>More string</td> 
   <td>More string</td>
   <td>More string</td> 
   <td>More string</td>
   <td>More string</td> 
   <td>More string</td>
</tr >
</script>

<table id="table"></table>
<script>
  var data = [];
  
  for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
    var row = {
      id: i,
      firstName: 'john',
      lastName: 'doe'
    };
  
    data.push(row);
  }
  
  $.template("savedTmpl", document.getElementById("tmplRow").innerHTML);
  
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
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jQuery templates
$('#table').html($("#tmplRow").tmpl(data));
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string padding method
var s = [];

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  s.push('<tr>');
  s.push('<td><input type="checkbox" value="');
  s.push(data[i].id);
  s.push('" /></td><td>');
  s.push(data[i].firstName + ' ');
  s.push(data[i].lastName);
  s.push('</td>');
  s.push('<td class="edit">        <a>Edit</a>        <input style="display:none;" type="hidden" value="Blah" />        <input class="cancel" type="button" value="cancel" />    </td>    <td class="select">        <a>Select</a>        <select style="display:none;">            <option>0</option>            <option>1</option>            <option>2</option>            <option>3</option>            <option>4</option>            <option>5</option>            <option>6</option>            <option>7</option>            <option>8</option>            <option>9</option>            <option>10</option>        </select>        <input class="cancel" type="button" value="cancel" />    </td>    <td>More string</td>    <td>More string</td>    <td>More string</td>    <td>More string</td>    <td>More string</td>    <td>More string</td>');
  s.push('</tr>');
}

$('#table').html(s.join(''));
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Precompiled jQuery template
$("#table").html($.tmpl("savedTmpl", data));
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