Benchmark: mustache@4.0.1 vs handlebars@4.7.6

Script Preparation code:

var template = "<strong>This is a slightly more complicated {{thing}}.</strong>.\n{{! Just ignore this business. }}\nCheck this out:\n{{#hasThings}}\n<ul>\n{{#things}}\n<li class={{className}}>{{word}}</li>\n{{/things}}</ul>.\n{{/hasThings}}\n{{^hasThings}}\n\n<small>Nothing to check out...</small>\n{{/hasThings}}";

var context = {
  thing: function() {
    return "blah";
  },
  things: [
    {"className": "one", word: "@fat"},
    {"className": "two", word: "@dhg"},
    {"className": "three", word:"@sayrer"}
  ],
  hasThings: true
};

var handlebarsRenderer = Handlebars.compile(template);
Mustache.parse(template);

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 29 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 18 runs

Mustache

466K/s

Handlebars

274K/s

Fastest: Mustache (1.7x faster)

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✓ Mustache: 465,601 ops/sec
• Handlebars: 274,167 ops/sec

Firefox 11 runs

Mustache

434K/s

Handlebars

179K/s

Fastest: Mustache (2.4x faster)

View exact numbers

✓ Mustache: 434,361 ops/sec
• Handlebars: 178,935 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Test case name	Result
Handlebars
Mustache

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 137 on Linux

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Mustache

541K/s

Handlebars

215K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Mustache	540,720 Ops/sec
Handlebars	215,066 Ops/sec

mustache@4.0.1 vs handlebars@4.7.6 (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: `Handlebars vs Mustache`

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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Handlebars

Mustache

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 29 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 18 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

mustache@4.0.1 vs handlebars@4.7.6 (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: Handlebars vs Mustache

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

Handlebars

Mustache

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 29 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 18 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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