django templates performance
This is like the argument about the most efficient way to append strings (virtually every programming language has that argument). This is 2011, not 1970. Even consumer level computers have processing power and memory reserves to match the supercomputers of the last decade. Network server-class machines have much more. Saving a cycle or two on the processor these days is pretty meaningless. It's one thing when you're developing OS system code or low-level system processes, but for parsing a template, you're wasting your time.
Which is more efficient in Django: to render an object using the template language? or to push the code to render the object via a templatetag function using the python language?