Template writer question

[John]

This may be a newbie question, but I'm trying to figure out which of the
following two methods is better for performing the template merge and
outputting it in a servlet?

Using the HttpServletResponse's Writer object?

       Writer writer = response().getWriter();
       template.merge(context, writer);
       writer.close();

OR

the VelocityViewServlet way with the WriterPool and VelocityWriter?

           vw = (VelocityWriter) writerPool.get();

           if (vw == null)
           {
               vw = new VelocityWriter( new OutputStreamWriter(output,
encoding), 4*1024, true);
           }
           else
           {
               vw.recycle(new OutputStreamWriter(output, encoding));
           }

           template.merge( context, vw);



Thanks
John