Backbone vs. Ember vs. React: A Benchmark

[jsnk]

http://jsfiddle.net/Ut2X6/

[sophiebits]

This is cool to see. I added the React benchmark yesterday (https://twitter.com/soprano/status/423659115743682560) and @ebryn updated it to compare against the Ember+HTMLBars implementation.

I wanted to mention that this is pretty much a worst-case scenario for React: with everything changing on each frame, we gain almost nothing from the virtual DOM diffing. It's encouraging to see how fast HTMLBars is; hoping to see if any of the techniques they're using are applicable in React.

[jsnk]

This is what I am getting on my machine.

Backbone: 16.5ms Ember + HTMLbars: 5.9ms React: 9.5ms Plain JS: 3.5ms

[bratsche]

I'm just getting errors and it won't run.

[ebryn → bratsche]

Something weird is going on with rawgithub.com. Here's an updated version: http://jsfiddle.net/Ut2X6/8/