I wonder how the trello approach of building more complete DOM elements in backbone prior to insertion, to avoid layout thrashing, would compare to using reques

I wonder how the trello approach of building more complete DOM elements in backbone prior to insertion, to avoid layout thrashing, would compare to using requestAnimationFrame batching? It seems like RAF might allow the browser to see all those DOM "thrashes" as a single render and not try to render them separately, thus speeding them up. I'm just getting started with using RAF for some JS animations I want to be very high performance, but haven't seen what impact it would have on something as large as a huge trello board. RAF performance may also be more variable between browsers than simply reducing layout thrashing. At this point though I'm speculating. Would be good if someone more knowledgable would do a comparison.