Virtual DOM in Elm
My first thought when looking at the benchmarks is that I find it strange that Backbone is faster than React. Not that I imagine Backbone to be slow, particularly, just that this article is about one of React's key features - the virtual DOM - and that's something which Backbone doesn't have. I'd expect to see React up there with Om, Mercury & Elm.<p>I've just had a look at the code and React is using a localstorage backend, while Backbone is using its models + collections with a localstorage extension... so I'd expect there to at least be some overhead there, but apparently not.<p>Does anyone have any quick thoughts on what might be happening here? I can't shake the feeling that these benchmarks might not be terribly useful.