Run results for: Handlebars vs Hogan vs Mustache (Updated versions2)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.6.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 26

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 days ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Handlebars

38.8M/s

Mustache

2.2M/s

Hogan

2.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Handlebars	38,752,576 Ops/sec
Mustache	2,247,985 Ops/sec
Hogan	2,206,649 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/4.7.8/handlebars.min.js" integrity="sha512-E1dSFxg+wsfJ4HKjutk/WaCzK7S2wv1POn1RRPGh8ZK+ag9l244Vqxji3r6wgz9YBf6+vhQEYJZpSjqWFPg9gg==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mustache.js/4.1.0/mustache.min.js" integrity="sha512-HYiNpwSxYuji84SQbCU5m9kHEsRqwWypXgJMBtbRSumlx1iBB6QaxgEBZHSHEGM+fKyCX/3Kb5V5jeVXm0OglQ==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/hogan.js/3.0.2/hogan.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 handlebarsRenderer = Handlebars.compile(template);
var hoganRenderer = Hogan.compile(template);
var mustacheRender = Mustache.parse(template);

Tests:

Handlebars
Handlebars.compile(template)
Hogan
Hogan.compile(template)
Mustache
Mustache.parse(template)