haml--haml/README.md

# Hamlit [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/k0kubun/hamlit.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/k0kubun/hamlit)

Hamlit is a high performance [haml](https://github.com/haml/haml) implementation.

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'hamlit'
```

or just replace `gem "haml"` with `gem "hamlit"`.

## Features
### Fast rendering

Hamlit's rendering is **8.47x times faster** than original haml.

![](http://i.gyazo.com/57b726102a4a169d4b85cc22fcbb3ff3.png)

```
    hamlit:   133922.9 i/s
    erubis:   123464.1 i/s - 1.08x slower
      slim:   110404.3 i/s - 1.21x slower
      faml:    92009.3 i/s - 1.46x slower
      haml:    15810.4 i/s - 8.47x slower
```

[This benchmark](https://github.com/k0kubun/hamlit/blob/74ede1101f228828e343ceb1af481c45eaf0a1dd/benchmarks/benchmark.rb)
is the same as [slim-template/slim](https://github.com/slim-template/slim)'s one for fairness.
([The result on travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/k0kubun/hamlit/jobs/56403724))

### Better parser

Haml's attribute parser is not so good. For example, raises syntax error for `%a{ b: '}' }`.
Hamlit's attribute parser is implemented with Ripper, which is an official lexer for Ruby,
so it is able to parse such an attribute.

### Passing haml-spec

[haml/haml-spec](https://github.com/haml/haml-spec) is a basic suite of tests for Haml interpreters.
For all test cases in haml-spec, Hamlit behaves the same as Haml (ugly mode only, which is used on production).

Hamlit is used on [githubranking.com](http://githubranking.com/).

## Usage

Basically the same as [haml](https://github.com/haml/haml).
Check out the [reference documentation](http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html) for details.

### Rails

Just update Gemfile.

### Sinatra

For compatibility with Haml, Hamlit does not escape html automatically in sinatra.
You can enable html escaping manually:

```ruby
set :haml, { escape_html: true }
```

## Why high performance?
### Less work on runtime
Haml's rendering is very slow because generated code by haml runs many operations on runtime.
For example, Haml::Util is extended on view, attribute rendering runs even if it is a
static value and the values in attribute is sorted. All of them is achieved on runtime.

Hamlit extends ActionView beforehand, attribute rendering is done when compiled if it
is a static hash and no unnecessary operation is done on runtime.

### Temple optimizers
Hamlit is implemented with [temple](https://github.com/judofyr/temple), which is a template
engine framework for Ruby. Temple has some great optimizers for generated code. Thus generated
code by Hamlit is very fast.

Not only relying on temple optimizers, but also Hamlit's compiler cares about many cases
to optimize performance such as string interpolation.

## License

MIT License