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Transparency vs. other template engines. Based on http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating

Preparation code

<script src="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-1.0.0.beta.6.js"></script>
<script src=http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/leonidas/transparency/master/dist/transparency.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://distal.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/distal.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/flatiron/plates/master/lib/plates.js"></script>
<script src="https://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doT.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout/master/build/knockout-raw.js_tmp"></script>


<style>
h2.header{
background-color: ghostwhite;
color: midnightblue;
padding: 3px 5px;
border: 1px solid #111111;
}
</style>
<h2 class="header">Transparency</h2>
<div id="transparency">
  <h1 class='header'>1 Placeholder</h1>
  <h2 class='header2'>2 Placeholder</h2>
  <h3 class='header3'>3 Placeholder</h3>
  <h4 class='header4'>4 Placeholder</h4>
  <h5 class='header5'>5 Placeholder</h5>
  <h6 class='header6'>6 Placeholder</h6>
  <ul class='list'>
    <li class='item'>Item placeholder</li>
  </ul>
</div>

<h2 class="header">Handlebars</h2>
<div id="handlebars"></div>

<h2 class="header">Distal</h2>
<div id="distal">
  <h1 data-qtext="header">1 Placeholder</h1>
  <h2 data-qtext="header2">2 Placeholder</h2>
  <h3 data-qtext="header3">3 Placeholder</h3>
  <h4 data-qtext="header4">4 Placeholder</h4>
  <h5 data-qtext="header5">5 Placeholder</h5>
  <h6 data-qtext="header6">6 Placeholder</h6>
  <ul>
    <li data-qrepeat="m list" data-qtext="m">Item placeholder</li>
  </ul>
</div>


<h2 class="header">Plates</h2>
<div id="platesTemplate" style="display:none;">
  <h1 id='header'>1 Placeholder</h1>
  <h2 id='header2'>2 Placeholder</h2>
  <h3 id='header3'>3 Placeholder</h3>
  <h4 id='header4'>4 Placeholder</h4>
  <h5 id='header5'>5 Placeholder</h5>
  <h6 id='header6'>6 Placeholder</h6>
  <ul>
    <li class='list'>Item placeholder</li>
  </ul>
</div>
<div id="plates"></div>

<h2 class="header">doT.js</h2>
<div id="dot"></div>

<h2 class="header">Knockout</h2>
<div id="knockout">
  <h1 data-bind="text: header">1 Placeholder</h1>
  <h2 data-bind="text: header2">2 Placeholder</h2>
  <h3 data-bind="text: header3">3 Placeholder</h3>
  <h4 data-bind="text: header4">4 Placeholder</h4>
  <h5 data-bind="text: header5">5 Placeholder</h5>
  <h6 data-bind="text: header6">6 Placeholder</h6>
  <ul data-bind="foreach: list">
    <li><span data-bind="text: $data">Item placeholder</span></li>
  </ul>
</div>
<script>
  Benchmark.prototype.setup = function() {
    window.sharedVariables = {
       header: "Header",
       header2: "Header2",
       header3: "Header3",
       header4: "Header4",
       header5: "Header5",
       header6: "Header6",
       list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
    };
    
    window.transparencyTemplate = document.getElementById('transparency');
    
    window.distalTemplate     = document.getElementById('distal');
    
    window.handlebarsTemplate = Handlebars.compile("<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#list}}<li class='item'>{{this}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>");
    
    window.handlebarsOutput     = document.getElementById('handlebars');
    
    window.platesTemplate = $('#platesTemplate').html();
    window.platesOutput = document.getElementById("plates");
    
    window.dotTemplate = doT.template("<div><h1>{{=it.header}}</h1><h2>{{=it.header2}}</h2><h3>{{=it.header3}}</h3><h4>{{=it.header4}}</h4><h5>{{=it.header5}}</h5><h6>{{=it.header6}}</h6><ul>{{~it.list:elem}}<li class='item'>{{=elem}}</li>{{~}}</ul></div>");
    window.dotOutput = document.getElementById("dot");
    
    window.knockoutTemplate = document.getElementById("knockout");
  };
</script>

Preparation code output

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dotOutput.innerHTML = dotTemplate(sharedVariables);

handlebarsOutput.innerHTML = handlebarsTemplate(sharedVariables);

distal(distalTemplate, sharedVariables);

platesOutput.innerHTML = Plates.bind(platesTemplate, sharedVariables);

Transparency.render(transparencyTemplate, sharedVariables);

ko.applyBindings(sharedVariables, knockoutTemplate);

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Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 2nd February 2012
• Revision 2: published on 17th February 2012
• Revision 3: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 17th February 2012
• Revision 4: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 18th February 2012
• Revision 5: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 19th February 2012
• Revision 6: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 24th February 2012
• Revision 7: published on 24th February 2012
• Revision 8: published by Jarno Keskikangas on 24th February 2012
• Revision 10: published by Danny on 27th March 2012
• Revision 11: published by Danny on 2nd April 2012
• Revision 17: published by aaronlks on 26th January 2013
• Revision 18: published on 8th March 2013
• Revision 19: published on 8th March 2013
• Revision 20: published by Jerome on 8th March 2013
• Revision 21: published on 12th March 2013
• Revision 22: published on 20th March 2013
• Revision 23: published on 20th March 2013

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