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Virtual DOM is pure overhead

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Let's retire the 'virtual DOM is fast' myth once and for all. Rich Harris argues that virtual DOM diffing is an unnecessary overhead and that a compile-time approach (as used by Svelte) is fundamentally more efficient.

Fetched May 1, 2026