README.md

template-benchmark

JMH benchmark for popular Java template engines:

• Java Native - the baseline. manually created page using byte[] and OutputStream (output Charset : UTF-8)
• Freemarker
• Groovy Template
• Handlebars
• HTTL (Hyper-Text Template Language)
• Jamon
• Apache Tomcat Jasper - JSP and JSPX templating
• Mustache
• Rocker
• Thymeleaf
• Trimou
• Twirl
• Apache Velocity
• Saxon - XSL-T templating

And other engines ... (see branch other-template-engines)

• Beetl
• JMustache
• Rythm

NB: The versions of template engines can be deduced by looking in the pom.xml file. Each template engine should have its version suffixed in the template dir inside final JAR.

Running the benchmark

Download the source code and build it: mvn clean verify

If you want to compile, build and launch benchmarks: mvn clean verify -Pperf

Run the entire benchmark suite: java -jar target/template-engine-benchmarks-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

To run a single benchmark, such as Mustache, use: java -jar target/template-engine-benchmarks-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar MustacheBenchmark

Example Results

Benchmark result can also be available at https://github.com/jycr/template-engine-benchmarks/wiki