Testing Smarty 3 beta and RC performance, comparing with Smarty 2
Smarty is template engine used for separation front-end HTML for designers and back-end PHP for programmers. We’ve been using Smarty 2 for years. Now when Smarty 3 is in Release candidate stage, its time to think about an upgrade. Smarty 3 is rewritten from scratch in PHP 5 and its not suppose to work under PHP 4. It promises also faster processing, and more flexible syntax. Lets have a look on few benchmarks I did.
Benchmark consists of fetching 100 times testing template and tests were performed 5 times each. In the template was one for-each loop with 30 printed variables and if condition. For all Smarty versions was used old syntax, and Smarty 3 beta 8 and RC1 were also tested with new syntax. Results are shown below (showing only average values)
a) recompile every time
smarty version: 3b1
60.48ms
smarty version: 3b2
56.26ms
smarty version: 3b5
62.53ms
smarty version: 3b6
54.46ms
smarty version: 3b7
50.87ms
smarty version: 3b8
59.72ms
smarty version: 3rc1
55.58ms
smarty version: 3rc1 new syntax
50.67ms
smarty version: 2
49.92ms
b) fetching without recompile
smarty version: 3b1
0.95ms
smarty version: 3b2
0.91ms
smarty version: 3b5
1.13ms
smarty version: 3b6
1.01ms
smarty version: 3b7
0.95ms
smarty version: 3b8
1.67ms
smarty version: 3rc1
0.76ms
smarty version: 3rc1 new syntax
0.69ms
smarty version: 2
0.50ms
What I can say so far is, that Smarty 3 is not yet faster than its previous version using old syntax. Using new syntax with RC1 makes it perform a bit better, but still its not faster than Smarty 2.
Published by Gaspo in: Smarty, HTML, JavaScript