Pseudocode demonstrating pre-rendering HTML and binding views to it rather than the views generating HTML.

gistfile1.js

// Pseudocode demonstrating pre-rendering HTML
// Binding views to HTML rather than the views generating HTML
var $listItems = $('#list').find('li');
var dataset = data; // array of 1000 objects
for (var i = 0; i < dataset.length; i++) {
 var view = new ItemView({model: dataset[i]});
 view.setElement($listItems.eq(i));
}