Velocity 1.7 slower than 1.4

TNO <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:52:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.velocity.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

we try a few month ago to upgrade velocity to 1.7 from 1.4.
Just a replacement in Maven pom.xml.

Then, we measure a lot of treatment before and after and  and what our 
surprise : it 'is about 10 times slower with velocity 1.7 !

Did I miss something ?

Cherrs, Thomas