Benchmarking Mojo::Template / Text::Xslate /Template with loops and condicionals

bench-templates-systems.pl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Mojo::Template;
use Text::Xslate;
use Template;

# some useful options (see below for full list)
my $config = {
    EVAL_PERL => 0,    # evaluate Perl code blocks
};

# create Template object
my $template = Template->new($config);

use Benchmark qw/timethese cmpthese/;
my $ref = [
    map { ( { name => 'peach', color => 'white', number => $_, } ) } ( 0 .. 1000 ),
];
my $tx     = Text::Xslate->new;
my $mt     = Mojo::Template->new;
my $result = timethese(
    -5,
    {
        mojo_template => sub {
            $mt->render( '
            % my ($av) = @_;

            % foreach my $item (@$av) {
<ul>
<li>name:<%= $item->{name} %></li>
<li>color:<%= $item->{color} %></li>

<% if ($item->{number} > 2) { %>
<li>number:<%= $item->{number} %></li>
<% } %>


</ul>
% }
', $ref );
        },
        text_xslate => sub {
            $tx->render_string(
                ': for $av -> $item {
<ul>
<li>name:<: $item.name :></li>
<li>color:<: $item.color :></li>

: if $item.number > 2 {
        <li>number:<: $item.number :></li>

  : }

</ul>
: } ', { av => $ref }

            );
        },

        tt => sub {
            my $out = '';
            $out = $template->process(
                \' [% FOR item IN av %]
<ul>
<li>name:[% item.name %]</li>
<li>color:[% item.color %]</li>
[% IF item.number > 2 %]
<li>number:[% item.number %]</li>
[%END%]
</ul>
[% END %] ', { av => $ref }, \$out

            );
        },

    }
);

cmpthese($result);

results.txt

Benchmark: running mojo_template, text_xslate, tt for at least 5 CPU seconds...
mojo_template:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.35 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.35 CPU) @ 920.56/s (n=4925)
text_xslate:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.35 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.35 CPU) @ 526.36/s (n=2816)
        tt:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.14 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.14 CPU) @ 84.63/s (n=435)
                Rate            tt   text_xslate mojo_template
tt            84.6/s            --          -84%          -91%
text_xslate    526/s          522%            --          -43%
mojo_template  921/s          988%           75%            --

# AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor @ 3.6 ghz + some boost probability, no OC

Template (2.27)
Text::Xslate  (3.4.0)
Mojo::Template => (Mojolicious (7.33))

I also changed line 19 to my $tx = Text::Xslate->new(type => 'text'); and results are similar.

                Rate            tt   text_xslate mojo_template
tt            86.6/s            --          -84%          -91%
text_xslate    541/s          525%            --          -41%
mojo_template  914/s          956%           69%            --