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The requestAnimationFrame part with simple backbone views is pretty straight forward: https://github.com/danshearmur/backbone-fast-view/blob/maste...

I'm sure doing a similar thing with LayoutManager wouldn't be too hard. I think LayoutManager uses _render internally too so you may want to call it something else.

It also definitely does make the benchmarks faster http://danshearmur.github.io/backbone-fast-view/

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That's great - benchmark 2 is essentially a bunch of useless work, and it appears to really speed things up by making sure we only actually touch the DOM every 16ms, instead of constantly.

I'd imagine a Backbone integration with React would get us even closer. I'm not sure if it actually makes sense to go too far with an LM conversion as React appears to do a better job. But LM could certainly benefit from waiting until RAF.

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