Because with the change that was made to parse more consistently ... i.e. whenever a "parse" function is defined, not just at the Ajax border, so that now if yo

Because with the change that was made to parse more consistently ... i.e. whenever a "parse" function is defined, not just at the Ajax border, so that now if you have both `collection.parse` and `model.parse` defined, you'll get both -- parsing was no longer happening when an XHR object was necessarily available. I'm also of the mind that it ought to be a function that works purely in terms of your data. For your particular use case (call collection.fetch(), and don't re-render if nothing has changed) -- give the new collection.fetch({update: true}) a try. That should give you zero events if all of the model contents are identical to what's already in the collection.