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Is it faster than Inferno[1]?

[1] Inferno seems to be the fastest React drop-in replacement at 9kb size at the moment: http://stefankrause.net/js-frameworks-benchmark4/webdriver-t... - full post to the comparison table before: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=316

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Inferno is definitely fast, but these benchmarks are highly misleading.

We're working on improving them so they better reflect the difference in keyed vs non-keyed implementations [1][2]. When ready, Round 5 should be a much more realistic apples-to-apples comparison.

[1] https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...

[2] https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/10...

Thanks, I was just wondering why the OP didn't compare Rax to Inferno.

Inferno is gonna be really tough to beat, at least for non-keyed implementations. We don't have a keyed implementation from them, so it's hard to say exactly how they do there, but i dont doubt that it'll be at or near the top. For now kivi is likely the fastest possible but the way you have to write your code with kivi is rather unpleasent. However, the whole point of kivi was to push the perf boundaries, not to be useable directly.

At the end of the day, there are numerous <= 15KB libs that come within 3%-15% of Inferno, so the perf and size difference is really becoming secondary to lib ergonomics and features.

If you wanna read a lot more of our convo, head over to: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5m2u0s/infernoj...

Those microbenchmarks are meaningless. If you choose a framework because of their microbenchmark grades you are making a huge mistake.

Yup, though the Rax benchmarks are especially bad. Calling a function with unchanging arguments in a loop with a constant number of iterations is going to trigger about the least real-world performance characteristics you could ask for, haha. I'm happy to see more people getting into the VDOM space, but it sucks to have to explain all the pitfalls every time a new broken benchmark comes out.

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