Welcome to Pluggable/Tunable Template Benchmark

Last Update: 10 Apr 2008

Use setup to tune the benchmark for Your production environment.

How to add one more template engine?
Download the source.

PHP version: 5.2.17
Eaccelerator (bytecode caching): DISABLED
Feel free to add and modify.
Inform me about your changes please.
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Setup

Basically, benchmark loops the block with <var_count> variables and <text_length> plain text.

The block is looped <block_count> times.

Tune these params to model from simple variable replacement to pagination loops.

The process is repeated <iterations> times to get the average.

Extra first pass is used to make sure template caches worked before actual benchmark.

block_count	/ 50	text_length	/ 1000
var_count	/ 9	iterations	/ 5

php-templates will not be run: php extension required.

N	Engine name	Time	Percentage	Checksum	Test
1	php	0.000287	100%	52700
2	Beilpuz	0.000366	128%	52700
3	vsprintf	0.000526	183%	52700
4	outline	0.000568	198%	52700
5	dwoo	0.000583	203%	52700
6	smarty	0.000793	276%	52700
7	str_replace	0.00106	369%	52700
8	phemplate	0.001475	514%	52700
9	fasttemplate	0.001985	692%	52700
10	templatelite	0.002359	822%	52701
11	vtemplate	0.003426	1194%	52700
12	Sigma	0.003732	1300%	52700
13	xslt	0.003904	1360%	51701
14	IT	0.004054	1413%	52700
15	ultratemplate	0.004319	1505%	52700
16	templatepower	0.006164	2148%	52700
17	bugitemplate	0.007947	2769%	52700
18	tinybutstrong	0.008845	3082%	52700
19	phplib	0.010036	3497%	52700
20	xtemplate	0.023506	8190%	52700

Engine comments.

Blitz - PHP extension in C, single PHP call in this test (unnatural), that's why that fast. But it's really fast anyway ;)
PHP - pure PHP with <?=var?> and output_buffering.
str_replace - PHP with variable replacement using str_replace and concatenation of filled blocks.
Smarty, Sigma - compiled templates caching is on.
php-templates - PHP extension in C.
XSLT - libxslt+libxml2(PHP5). XML generation time is counted also. Checksum may be wrong cause of spaces.
TinyButStrong, vsprintf - thanks to Christophe Colombier
Outline, TemplateLite - courtesy of Rasmus Schultz
IT, Sigma - members of PEAR package.
Dwoo - from Jordi Boggiano.
Beilpuz - by Mike Reiche.