I believe Mitsuhiko was trying to draw comparisons of Django or Genshi engines to those of Jinja2 or Mako. There was a well depicted article, year(s) back, show

I believe Mitsuhiko was trying to draw comparisons of Django or Genshi engines to those of Jinja2 or Mako. There was a well depicted article, year(s) back, showing (profiling) where Django templating was losing a lot of work, compared to Jinja. Unfortunately, the article appears to have fallen off pocoo.org, but you can find the HN discussion at the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726461 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726461