Run results for: EJS vs doT

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.114 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
EJS	22986.3 Ops/sec
doT	29449.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>
var exports = {};
var require = function(){
  return {
    escapeRegExpChars: function (string) {
      return string ? String(string).replace(/[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g, '\\$&') : '';
    }
  };
};
</script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/olado/doT/master/doT.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/mde/ejs/master/lib/ejs.js"></script>
<script>
  require = undefined
</script>
<div id="insertionPoint"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var sharedVariables = {
  header: "Header",
  header2: "Header2",
  header3: "Header3",
  header4: "Header4",
  header5: "Header5",
  header6: "Header6",
  list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
};

var dotT = doT.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{= it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{= it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{= it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{= it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{= it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{= it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>");
var ejsT = ejs.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'><% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%- list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>");

var ip = document.getElementById('insertionPoint');

Tests:

EJS
ip.innerHTML = ejsT(sharedVariables);
doT
ip.innerHTML = dotT(sharedVariables);

Run results for: EJS vs doT

EJS latest (dev) vs doT latest (dev)

EJS

doT