With a proper vdom patch or observables it just wouldn’t happen, at all, unless the value was explicitly changed from the server, if it’s an untouched value then it just wouldn’t be touched, so no updating would happen and thus it wouldn’t get cleared.
Not handy (useful I know), been busy at work and the computers are lagging crazy… >.>
Yep, as mentioned above it is the build-up and the tear-down of the DOM tree it builds from a string that is slow, the DOM<->DOM (or a compatible vdom on one) is much faster, normal vdom style speed, which is still slower than direct access, but would be significantly more worth it, however you are just moving the cost from the patching to the build of the vdom structure on the client (which is still much faster than instancing actual DOM elements to test with).
