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		rasz on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) Vivaldi browser is made using React. Frantic pointless UI DOM manipulations (deleting nodes just to recreate them back etc) are one of the main sources of performance degradation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27449736

runawaybottle on June 30, 2021 [–]

I just read that and chuckled. Someone must have been under pressure and just said fuck it, this works.

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