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by password11 1218 days ago
> If you're rendering thousands of items on an SVG data visualisation, sure [virtual dom] matters.

I am not educated on the no-virtual-DOM-hype.

What actually costs more here:

(1) the diff and vdom algorithm or

(2) the actual DOM calls?

I always thought it was (2)... is this right?