Why Is Ink Slow?

I fell down a rabbit hole when I asked an LLM "why is Ink slow and Ratatui fast, and don't say 'because Rust'".

This led to a "10,000,000x faster" drop in replacement to Ink using a Rust backend. The goal here isn't to displace Ink but more of a bit of naive research into how you could make it faster.

I tried to distill the findings in this doc. Please don't use Ratatat beyond research, it's just an experiment.