webrender

Also, remember that my position is that most applications are limited by other factors before you hit the DOM. I certainly would expect that you could beat the DOM by specializing – e.g. a high-speed table renderer could make aggressive optimizations about how cells are rendered, like table-layout:fixed but more so – but the more general-purpose it becomes the more likely you'd hit similar challenges with flexibility under-cutting performance. The most interesting direction to me are attempts to radically rethink the DOM implementation – the performance characteristics of something like https://github.com/glennw/webrender should be different in very interesting ways.