Phase 2: schema-aware typed compilation in FreshMarker
The previous post looked at the Stage 1 (untyped) compiler and finished with an honest observation: Stage 1 removes fragment-dispatch overhead but still evaluates every expression through TemplateObject. This third and final post explains how the Stage 2 compiler uses a TemplateTypeSchema to emit raw Java that talks directly to your data model — and how that unlocks the ~2.5× AOT speedup from the benchmark chart in the first post.
