You Probably Don't Need to Think About UI Optimization: Honest Benchmarks

This is the third post in a series. Start with the first post if you haven't already, or read the architecture post for the full mental model. Framework posts love benchmarks. They also love cherry-picking them. I want to be upfront about what these benchmarks measure, what they don't, and what the numbers actually mean for your daily work. The short version: Inglorious Web matches the fastest alternatives without any optimization work, in a bundle that's 4–5x smaller than React. Vue and Svelte are equally fast — that's not a surprise, and it's not a problem. The real differentiator isn't raw speed. It's that Inglorious Web's optimization surface area is dramatically smaller. You write naive code and get optimal performance. But there's a scenario where full-tree rendering has a measurable cost, and I'll show you that too — along with why it almost certainly doesn't matter for your users. All benchmarks are in the public repo . Run them yourself on your hardware. Benchmark 1: The Dashb