Every Text in a React Native app pays a small, invisible cost on every render silently eating up your frame budget.

This talk shows what that cost actually is, why your profiler hides it from you, and the measurable performance impact it has on a real-world app. It shows how a clever plugin shifts this issue away from the runtime on the user's device to the compiler, and how such build-time optimizations could shape the next wave of performance improvements for the React ecosystem, starting with the React Compiler.