benchmarks and understanding trade-offs: implications of removing the vdom

[davidmarkclements]

Am I right in thinking that the main trade off here is removing React's vdom in favour of package size?

If so, is this now acceptable because modern browser DOM implementations are significantly faster than when react was released? Or is it more that it depends on the type of application?

For instance would an app with very frequent updates still benefit more from the vdom than lower package size?

Are there any publicly available benchmarks for testing rawact vs react in different scenarios?

[ryansolid]

This is a decent benchmark on some list operations. https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark. Gives you an idea. The VDOM vs non-VDOM thing is probably mostly for size, but it doesn't have to be. React is not particularly groundbreaking for performance, so it's fairly trivial to take any approach and make it outperform React. But performance isn't why you choose React.