h>React</th>
<th>Mithril</th>
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<td>99.7 ms</td>
<td>42.8 ms</td>
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<p>What these numbers show is that not only does Mithril initializes significantly faster, it can process upwards of 20,000 virtual DOM nodes before React is ready to use.</p>
<h5 id="update-performance"><a href="#update-performance">Update performance</a></h5>
<p>Update performance can be even more important than first-render performance, since updates can happen many times while a Single Pag