I have run recently a benchmark of a trivial 'big table' example for various python template engines (jinja2, mako, tenjin, tornado and wheezy.template) run on cpython2.7 and pypy1.9...... you might find it interesting: http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template.html Comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Andriy Kornatskyy