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by engmgrmgr 1604 days ago
You don’t have to always use the DOM. You can render in another thread, or even run compute in another thread and use the animation frame system to handle updates.

Having said that, maybe a little less than 10 years ago, we achieved the desired performance with touch-screen dragging of DOM elements. I don’t remember specifics, but we didn’t use any frameworks.