Run results for: Handlebars vs Hogan vs Mustache rendering

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

hoganRenderer.render({thing:"hello"});

9.2M/s

handlebarsRenderer({thing:"hello"});

617K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ hoganRenderer.render({thing:"hello"});	9,193,270 Ops/sec
handlebarsRenderer({thing:"hello"});	616,718 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/4.7.6/handlebars.min.js" integrity="sha512-zT3zHcFYbQwjHdKjCu6OMmETx8fJA9S7E6W7kBeFxultf75OPTYUJigEKX58qgyQMi1m1EgenfjMXlRZG8BXaw==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mustache.js/4.0.1/mustache.min.js" integrity="sha512-6AXIWogbKpsHvoZJrJtHpIYES4wP8czSj0zk7ZfwOYS8GWYFNSykwdfapt7yQc4ikZytemBu+QyVObzBHJMwYg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/hogan.js/3.0.2/hogan.min.js" integrity="sha512-F6j8lc1UBrmZHqUGreg4gNVVMCehTbf/LU0s/nnsQJYVeFSdpci+fcL48gsTd1Fbf08sD/kL+is2QiEssvJ70g==" crossorigin="anonymous"></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 handlebarsRenderer = Handlebars.compile(template);
var hoganRenderer = Hogan.compile(template);

Tests:

handlebarsRenderer({thing:"hello"});
handlebarsRenderer({thing:"hello"});
hoganRenderer.render({thing:"hello"});
hoganRenderer.render({thing:"hello"});