Benchmark Jinja2 vs DTL

from django.conf import settings
settings.configure()

import timeit

ITERS = 10**3
REPEATS = 3

jinja2_setup = """
import jinja2
def jinja2_loader(name):
    print '(jinja2) loading template', name
    if name == "i":
        return " "
    elif name == "include":
        return r'{% for i in range_ %}{% include "i" %}{% endfor %}'
    elif name == "noop":
        return "{% for i in range_ %} {% endfor %}"

env = jinja2.Environment(loader=jinja2.FunctionLoader(jinja2_loader))
t_noop = env.get_template("noop")
t_include = env.get_template("include")
context = {'range_': range(50)}
"""

django_setup = """
import django
from django import template
from django.conf import settings
from django.test.utils import setup_test_template_loader, restore_template_loaders
from django.template import loader, Context

if hasattr(loader, '_original_template_source_loaders'):
    restore_template_loaders()

#settings.configure()
#django.setup()

templates = {
    'i': template.Template(r' '),
    'noop': template.Template(r'{% for i in range_ %} {% endfor %}'),
    'include': template.Template(r'{% for i in range_ %}{% include "i" %}{% endfor %}'),
}
setup_test_template_loader(templates, use_cached_loader=True)
t_noop = loader.get_template('noop')
t_include = loader.get_template('include')
context = Context({'range_': range(50)})
"""


def p(name, times):
    print '%-28s %8.3fs  (%.3f %.3f %.3f)' % ((name, min(times)) + tuple(times))

jinja2_noop_time = timeit.repeat("t_noop.render(context)", jinja2_setup, repeat=REPEATS, number=ITERS)
jinja2_include_time = timeit.repeat("t_include.render(context)", jinja2_setup, repeat=REPEATS, number=ITERS)

django_noop_time = timeit.repeat("t_noop.render(context)", django_setup, repeat=REPEATS, number=ITERS)
django_include_time = timeit.repeat("t_include.render(context)", django_setup, repeat=REPEATS, number=ITERS)

p('jinja2 empty for', jinja2_noop_time)
p('jinja2 include', jinja2_include_time)

p('django empty for', django_noop_time)
p('django include', django_include_time)