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 a template engine benchmark that tests PHP vs Smarty and many more template engines http://www.raintpl.com/PHP-Template-Engines-Speed-Test/

• For assignment Twig is the faster, it compile the html template to a classes, so it's also faster in executing more than the PHP include! IMHO is heavy (many files) and complicate, but is very fast!

• For looping the faster is the PHP include, and soon after there's Rain which is very easy, small (1 file) and fast.