Yeah, I think it's rather misleading to compare om to the performance of the least optimized and most naive (on purpose, mind you) framework instead of a more robust one.
At least according to this data, React and Backbone are the fastest. (Om is faster than vanilla React)
One suspects that with hand-optimization the other frameworks could be a lot faster, but the point of this post is that it is fast without hand-optimizations.
I'd be interested to see these numbers after doing `npm install react-raf-batching` and doing `require('react-raf-batching').install()`.
Example: Average code written in node.js is typically just as slow as, say, PHP (in fact node.js was 3x slower than php in techempower benchmarks). However, it has potential to be much faster when optimized whereas PHP doesn't reward such optimization almost at all.