Comment by lelanthran

> And in low power applications? Like on a smartphone?

Doesn't make a difference. If the page is static, there is no redraw happening. If the page is dynamic, the redraw is happening at the frequency of the change (once per second, or once per frame, or whatever).

Whether you're doing a diff of the DOM or redrawing the whole DOM, typical pages (i.e. not two-sigmas past the median) aren't going to redraw something on every frame anyway.