For larger lists and/or situations, where often a long list of patches results from the diff of two consecutive versions of the lists, it might be a good idea to

• batch all patches in a list when diffing
• copy the mount-point node
• apply all patches to the (invisible) copy
• switch original mount-point-node and copy

This should improve rendering performance, avoid flickering when for example sorting a huge table, and make sure that animations on single elements all start at the same time (when the copy is mounted to the dom).

For small lists or lists that only result in very few patches between two versions, this might add some unnecessary overhead, so we would either accept this or find a way to make this behavior controllable over the api.