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

There is a drop in replacement for Smarty called Template Lite which is much more lightweight in respect to the library file size. That said, I have used the original Smarty in some extremely high load situations without needing to swap in this library.