clojure-template-benchmarks/README.md

clojure-template-benchmarks

Template engines being compared are:

• Clojure str function
• Tinsel
• Stencil
• mustache.clj
• Hiccup
• Enlive
• Clabango
• Selmer
• clj-pebble (soon-to-be-released Clojure wrapper library around Pebble)

Data

Times shown are in microseconds (µs) in the format "mean time / standard deviation."

<tr>
  <th>Template Engine</th>
  <th>Simple Data Injection</th>
  <th>Small List (50 items)</th>
  <th>Big List (1000 items)</th>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>str</td>
  <td>0.0897 / 0.0009</td>
  <td>8.4822 / 0.1109</td>
  <td>167.5538 / 1.5672</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Tinsel</td>
  <td>0.1832 / 0.0007</td>
  <td>12.0418 / 0.1884</td>
  <td>236.5161 / 1.3767</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Stencil (string)</td>
  <td>19.0593 / 0.1757</td>
  <td>71.6874 / 0.5020</td>
  <td>526.9889 / 7.2122</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Stencil (file)</td>
  <td>0.6663 / 0.0033</td>
  <td>23.4976 / 0.1265</td>
  <td>476.8262 / 2.1910</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>mustache.clj (file)</td>
  <td>0.3394 / 0.0039</td>
  <td>8.1361 / 0.0839</td>
  <td>165.4727 / 1.2440</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Hiccup</td>
  <td>0.1598 / 0.0010</td>
  <td>12.1548 / 0.0950</td>
  <td>237.7211 / 1.0018</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Hiccup (type-hinted)</td>
  <td>0.1731 / 0.0010</td>
  <td>12.8421 / 0.1939</td>
  <td>247.7344 / 1.2166</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Enlive</td>
  <td>13.3319 / 0.0650</td>
  <td>116.5084 / 0.9408</td>
  <td>2141.3317 / 7.9543</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Clabango (string)</td>
  <td>207.5223 / 3.6133</td>
  <td>844.5899 / 12.0383</td>
  <td>9822.2863 / 40.4448</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Clabango (file)</td>
  <td>263.1341 / 5.0118</td>
  <td>907.2633 / 14.9110</td>
  <td>9996.2817 / 57.1756</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Selmer (string)</td>
  <td>22.8039 / 0.0753</td>
  <td>107.4600 / 1.3940</td>
  <td>1138.7408 / 10.4449</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Selmer (file)</td>
  <td>10.7812 / 0.0694</td>
  <td>65.6449 / 0.5891</td>
  <td>1108.8427 / 8.1423</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>clj-pebble (string)</td>
  <td>4.9072 / 0.0668</td>
  <td>26.7018 / 0.2296</td>
  <td>442.8252 / 1.9989</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>clj-pebble (file)</td>
  <td>4.8032 / 0.0368</td>
  <td>26.8360 / 0.4538</td>
  <td>446.6798 / 2.2262</td>
</tr>