micro bench: FTL vs. GSP

    Hi, everybody.

    In this post about a micro benchmark 
(http://www.jtict.com/blog/rails-wicket-grails-play-lift-jsp), I 
suggested FreeMarker templates as an alternative 
(http://www.jtict.com/blog/rails-wicket-grails-play-lift-jsp/comment-page-1/#comment-22088) 
because, in my tests, FreeMarker seems really faster for this particular 
case 
(http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/Template-GSP-vs-FTL-td3578664.html).
    But as a developer, I learned to always double check my tests and 
suspicious of any big differences in them.

    I must be unbiased here: Do you see any particular reason for 
FreeMarker performs so fast? My .ftl templates are here:
    
https://github.com/daniel-lima/blogpost_files/tree/master/grailsapp-fm-1.3.7/grails-app/views

    I also wondered about some weird bug that I might have accidentally 
introduced (some thread issue?) to make FreeMarker seems faster than it 
really is:
    
http://code.google.com/p/grails-freemarker-tags-plugin/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk

    I'm just checking to see if there is any obvious problem in my 
tests. I'm also waiting for "official" results: 
http://www.jtict.com/blog/rails-wicket-grails-play-lift-jsp.


    Thanks in advance.

          Best regards,

                Daniel.


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