Fastest template engine

Andriy Kornatskyy

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Sep 23, 2012, 5:24:36 AM9/23/12

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I have run recently a benchmark of a trivial 'big table' example for various python template engines (jinja2, mako, tenjin, tornado and wheezy.template) run on cpython2.7 and pypy1.9...... you might find it interesting:

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html

Comments or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

Andriy Kornatskyy

Andriy Kornatskyy

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Sep 25, 2012, 8:27:59 AM9/25/12

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The post has been updated due to comment from Makoto Kuwata (author of tenjin) related to use of optimized version of HTML escape in tenjin templates.

I believe Mako and Jinja2 both are using MarkupSafe which serves exactly for that purpose there.

The test assert the output is unicode.

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html

Thanks.

Andriy

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Andriy Kornatskyy

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Sep 26, 2012, 9:21:21 AM9/26/12

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The post has been updated with the following template engines added (per community request):

1. chameleon
2. django
3. web2py

Here is a link:

Jean-Michel Pichavant

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Sep 26, 2012, 12:10:24 PM9/26/12

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----- Original Message -----
>
> The post has been updated with the following template engines added
> (per community request):
>
> 1. chameleon
> 2. django
> 3. web2py
>
> Here is a link:
>
> http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html
>
> Comments or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andriy

http://www.cherrypy.org is quite popular as well.

JM

PS : please don't top post

Jean-Michel Pichavant

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Sep 26, 2012, 12:11:45 PM9/26/12

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Kindly ignore my post, I don't know why, I read web framework instead of template engine.

JM

alex23

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Sep 26, 2012, 8:33:24 PM9/26/12

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On Sep 27, 2:12 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
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> Kindly ignore my post, I don't know why, I read web framework instead of template engine.

Possibly because there's a parallel thread by Andriy on that topic :)

Andriy Kornatskyy

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Oct 1, 2012, 11:24:57 AM10/1/12

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1. Added benchmarks for python 3.3
2. Captured total numbers of calls made by corresponding template engine and number of unique functions used.

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html

Comments or suggestions are welcome.

Andriy

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> Subject: Fastest template engine
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:24:36 +0300
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> I have run recently a benchmark of a trivial 'big table' example for various python template engines (jinja2, mako, tenjin, tornado and wheezy.template) run on cpython2.7 and pypy1.9...... you might find it interesting:
>

> http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html
>
> Comments or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>

> Andriy Kornatskyy
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Andriy Kornatskyy

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Oct 19, 2012, 4:34:41 AM10/19/12

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Per community request cheetah has been added to benchmark. Post updated, just in case:

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html

Comments or suggestions are welcome.

Andriy

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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:21:21 +0300

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> The post has been updated with the following template engines added (per community request):
>
> 1. chameleon
> 2. django
> 3. web2py
>
> Here is a link:
>

Andriy Kornatskyy

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Oct 23, 2012, 8:45:56 AM10/23/12

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Python template engines offer high reusability of markup code and the following features are used by content developers most of the time:

* Includes: useful to incorporate some snippets of content that in most cases are common to the site, e.g. footer, scripts, styles, etc.

* Extends: useful to define a master layout for the majority of the site content with placeholders, e.g. sidebar, horizontal menu, content, etc. The content developers extend the master layout by substituting available placeholders.

* Widgets: usually small snippets of highly reusable markup, e.g. list item, button, etc. The content developers use widgets to increase readability and enforce consistency of design.

All mentioned features above are examined for various template engines (django, jinja2, mako, tornado and wheezy.template) in the following post:

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/10/python-templates-benchmark.html

The test is executed in isolated environment using CPython 2.7 but can be run for Python 3.3 and/or PyPy 1.9. Source code is here:

https://bitbucket.org/akorn/helloworld

Comments or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

Andriy

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Andriy Kornatskyy

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Dec 24, 2012, 5:12:21 AM12/24/12

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Per community request I have added tenjin to the templates benchmark and updated with latest version of other template engines.

Just in case here is a link:

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/10/python-templates-benchmark.html

Thanks.

Andriy Kornatskyy

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