Run results for: mustache vs handlebars rendering performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Handlebars	442462.7 Ops/sec
Mustache	698881.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handlebars@4.7.7/dist/handlebars.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mustache@4.2.0/mustache.min.js"></script>

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
};

Mustache.parse(template);
var handlebarsRenderer = Handlebars.compile(template);

Tests:

Handlebars
handlebarsRenderer(context);
Mustache
Mustache.render(template, context);

Run results for: mustache vs handlebars rendering performance

nya nya nya

Handlebars

Mustache