JS Template Engines Performance

Benchmark created by Tobias Otte on

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://sb.taurus.uberspace.de/jslib/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://sb.taurus.uberspace.de/jslib/underscore-1.3.1.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://sb.taurus.uberspace.de/jslib/jquery.mustache-0.5.0.min.js"></script>

<script>
  window.sharedVariables = {
    header: "Header",
    header2: "Header2",
    header3: "Header3",
    header4: "Header4",
    header5: "Header5",
    header6: "Header6",
    list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
  };

  window.mustacheTemplate = "<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'>{{#list}}<li class='item'>{{{.}}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>";

  window.underscoreTemplate = _.template("<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>");
</script>

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Testing in
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mustache.js
$.mustache(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables);
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underscore.js
underscoreTemplate(sharedVariables);
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