--- title: In rendering pipelines, have you seen Big O issues... description: A developer shares a performance lesson from rendering pipelines: diffing view models on every frame using deep object graph comparison caused immediate frame... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/in-rendering-pipelines-have-you-seen-big-o-issues-surface-immediately-instead-of-later--85reoo5se twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: In rendering pipelines, have you seen Big O issues surface immediately instead of later? | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares a performance lesson from rendering pipelines: diffing view models on every frame using deep object graph comparison caused immediate frame... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-rendering-pipelines-have-you-seen-big-o-issues-surface-immediately-instead-of-later--85reoo5se og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/85rEoo5se.png og:image:alt: In rendering pipelines, have you seen Big O issues surface immediately instead of later? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # In rendering pipelines, have you seen Big O issues surface immediately instead of later? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares a performance lesson from rendering pipelines: diffing view models on every frame using deep object graph comparison caused immediate frame drops due to O(n×depth) complexity. The fix was making models equatable cheaply by comparing IDs instead of full trees, ensuring predictable per-frame rendering cost. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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