Benchmarking Handlebars.java vs Freemarker

[Karan Pradhan]

Hi,

I was trying to benchmark my old template framework against handlebars.java I was using exactly similar templates in both the cases. For the freemarker template I was injecting the POJO object where as for the handlers.java I was injecting a json string using Jackson JSONNode class. But I was kind of surprised by the difference in performance. For freemarker I could render 10000 templates in about 900 ms where as the same number of templates took about 10000 ms for handlebars on my machine. Am I biasing my tests here or is handlebars.java slower than freemarker ?

Thanks!

[edgar]

That doesn't sound right.

Here is a performance test: https://github.com/mbosecke/template-benchmark with a "decent/normal" scenario measured with JMH

Handlebars isn't the fastest, but is faster than Freemarker.

Thanks.