title: Smarty benchmark, anyone?
body: <p>I am considering Smarty as my web app templating solution, and I am now concerned with its performance against plain PHP. </p>
  
  <p>The Smarty site says it should be the same, however, I was not able to find anyone doing real benchmarking to prove the statement right or wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Did anyone do some benchmarking of Smarty vs plain PHP? Or maybe come across some resources on such tests?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>