Comment by catlifeonmars

Thanks for the in depth explanation! I think the comparison to a game engine makes a lot of sense. Is the diff just part of the react rendering engine, or is it something you intentionally introduce as a performance optimization? Mostly I’m wondering how much the diff saves on rendering performance if you’ve already generated a 2D raster. In the browser, this saves on API calls to the DOM but at that point you haven’t rendered anything resembling an image. Is this what helps to resolve flickering, perhaps?