Two years ago, we released an HTML rendering library for Elm, and it was really fast. Faster than React, Angular, and Ember. All these frameworks have improved their renderers since then, so I figured it would be interesting to run the numbers again. One big takeaway is that Elm is the fastest. When comparing React and Elm in particular, you see that React takes about 50% longer to do the same work. Perhaps even more interesting, Elm is extremely fast even without optimization.
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