[DOC] add informations on how to compile templates ahead of time

This may help people stuck on issue #1195. Note that the tooling is
still quite rough.

README.md

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 - [Loading Templates](doc/reference/app.md#loading-templates)
 - [Mounting a component](doc/reference/app.md#mount-helper)
 - [Portal](doc/reference/portal.md)
+- [Precompiling templates](doc/reference/precompiling_templates.md)
 - [Props](doc/reference/props.md)
 - [Props Validation](doc/reference/props.md#props-validation)
 - [Reactivity](doc/reference/reactivity.md)

doc/reference/precompiling_templates.md

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+# 🦉 Precompiling templates 🦉
+
+Owl is designed to be used by the Odoo javascript framework. Since Odoo handles
+its assets in its own non standard way, it was decided/assumed that Owl would
+compile templates at runtime.
+
+However, in some cases, it is not optimal, or even worse, not possible to do that.
+For example, browser extensions do not allow javascript code to create a new
+function (using the `new Function(...)` syntax).
+
+Therefore, in these cases, it is required to compile templates ahead of time. It
+is possible to do that in Owl, but the tooling is still rough. For now, the
+process is the following:
+
+1. write your templates in xml files (with a `t-name` directive to declare the name
+   of the template)
+2. Compile them in a `templates.js` file
+3. get the `owl.iife.runtime.js` file (which is a owl build without the compiler)
+4. bundle `owl.iife.runtime.js` and `template.js` with your assets (owl needs to
+   be positioned before the templates)
+
+Here is a more detailed explanation on how to compile xml files into a js file:
+
+1. clone the owl repository locally
+2. `npm install` to install all the required tooling
+3. `npm run build:runtime` to build the `owl.iife.runtime.js` file
+4. `npm run build:compiler` to build the template compiler
+5. `npm run compile_templates -- path/to/your/templates` will scan your target
+   folder, find all xml files, get all templates, compile them, and generate a
+   `templates.js` file.