I hear you - my intention was more to explain the origin of the benchmark than to compare the different libraries/frameworks. The comparison I'm most interested

I hear you - my intention was more to explain the origin of the benchmark than to compare the different libraries/frameworks. The comparison I'm most interested in is Backbone (with templating) versus Backbone (with DOM manipulation), because it shows how dramatically you can improve performance by not continually generating HTML and overwriting the existing DOM.