WebForms view engine is slower that Razor view engine in MVC4

Question

I am still a beginner to MVC and I was trying to understand why developers seem to prefer Razor engine over WebForms engine in ASP.Net.

My question: Is it because Webforms engine is slower than Razor engine?

Personally, Webforms engine comes more easily to me because I have been coding in Webforms for the last 12 years.

Answer 1

Performance wise there should be no difference. The razor engine was developed to give a more concise syntax as explained in the question Does Razor syntax provide a compelling advantage in UI markup?. What will give you a performance boost is removing the unused view engines. For example if you use only razor, then in the Global.asax.cs file

// Remove view engines except razor
ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RazorViewEngine());