Smarty benchmark, anyone?

Question

I am considering Smarty as my web app templating solution, and I am now concerned with its performance against plain PHP.

The Smarty site says it should be the same

Answer 1

here's another templating solution XSLT here are my benchmarks for one of the pages i converted (its a simple page):

// with smarty (baseline)
    0.014 seconds

// with xsl/xslt-clientside
    0.008 seconds
    42% decrease in server stress

// with xsl/xslt-serverside
// this process would only be done if the users browser doesn't support client-side XSLT
    0.016 seconds
    14% increase in server stress

Its not for everyone but if performance is your main concern :)

On top of that you allow the client to cache your template.

here's an example of what I'm doing (this is one of my sites): http://pixao.com

and here's another example of it on a larger scale site: http://worldofwarcraft.com

so far i have yet to run into any show stoppers