Demo project to show different Java templating engines in combination with Spring boot MVC at https://ozkanpakdil.github.io/spring-comparing-template-engines/
View the Project on GitHub ozkanpakdil/spring-comparing-template-engines
lower is the better
| Engine Name | Seconds |
|---|---|
| jsp | 5.183 |
| velocity | 3.699 |
| freemarker | 3.687 |
| thymeleaf | 8.338 |
| mustache | 4.025 |
| jade | 153.716 |
| pebble | 10.149 |
| handlebars | 24.573 |
| scalate | 11.975 |
| httl | 5.257 |
| chunk | 5.514 |
| htmlFlow | 4.155 |
| trimou | 4.540 |
| rocker | 3.810 |
| ickenham | 6.997 |
| rythm | 4.810 |
| groovy | 1022.520 |
| liqp | 9.432 |
| kotlinx | 3.801 |
results taken from mvn and jvm :Apache Maven 3.8.8 (4c87b05d9aedce574290d1acc98575ed5eb6cd39) Maven home: /usr/share/apache-maven-3.8.8 Java version: 17.0.8, vendor: Eclipse Adoptium, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64 Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: “linux”, version: “5.15.0-1041-azure”, arch: “amd64”, family: “unix”
Runs performance test(ab -q -n 10000 -c 10 http://localhost:8080/TEMPLATE) from Github Actions and updates here.
If you are planning to use any template engine from the list, choose wisely, lowest is the best performance.