diff --git a/docs/.vuepress/components/AirportCodes.vue b/docs/.vuepress/components/AirportCodes.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3a0718
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/.vuepress/components/AirportCodes.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+<template>
+  <div class="flex">
+    <div class="airport-select default">
+      <table>
+        <tr>
+          <th colspan="2">Without Optimization 😬</th>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Dropdown Render</td>
+          <td :class="{ slow: !! timing.default }">{{ timing.default }}ms</td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+      <observed-select
+        data-type="default"
+        placeholder="Search for a destination..."
+        :options="options"
+        :get-option-label="({icao, name}) => `${icao} - ${name}`"
+      ></observed-select>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="airport-select optimized">
+      <table>
+        <tr>
+          <th colspan="2">With Optimization 🤓</th>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Dropdown Render</td>
+          <td :class="{ fast: !! timing.optimized }">{{ timing.optimized }}ms</td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+      <observed-select
+        data-type="optimized"
+        placeholder="Search for a destination..."
+        :options="options"
+        :filter="filter"
+        :loading="loading"
+        :get-option-label="({icao, name}) => `${icao} - ${name}`"
+      ></observed-select>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script>
+import Vue from 'vue';
+import airports from 'airport-data';
+import vSelect from '../../../src/components/Select'
+
+const timings = Vue.observable({
+  optimized: 0,
+  default: 0
+});
+
+const ObservedSelect = {...vSelect};
+
+ObservedSelect.watch.dropdownOpen = function (open) {
+  if (open) {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    this.$nextTick(() => {
+      timings[this.$el.dataset.type] = performance.now() - start;
+    })
+  }
+};
+
+export default {
+  name: "AirportCodes",
+  components: {ObservedSelect},
+  data: () => ({loading: false}),
+  methods: {
+    filter (airports, search) {
+      if (search.length === 0) {
+        return airports.slice(0, 50);
+      }
+      return airports.filter(airport => {
+        const keys = ['name', 'city', 'country', 'iata', 'icao'];
+        return keys.some(key => String(airport[key]).toLowerCase().includes(search.toLowerCase()))
+      }).slice(0, 50);
+    }
+  },
+  computed: {
+    options: () => airports,
+    timing: () => timings,
+  }
+}
+</script>
+
+<style scoped>
+  table {
+    display: table;
+    width: 100%;
+  }
+
+  .flex {
+    display: flex;
+  }
+
+  .airport-select {
+    width: 50%;
+  }
+
+  .airport-select + .airport-select {
+    margin-left: 1rem;
+  }
+
+  .fast,
+  .slow {
+    font-weight: bold;
+  }
+
+  .slow {
+    color: red;
+  }
+
+  .fast {
+    color: #3eaf7c;
+  }
+</style>
diff --git a/docs/.vuepress/config.js b/docs/.vuepress/config.js
index 2bed2c8..4d6041a 100644
--- a/docs/.vuepress/config.js
+++ b/docs/.vuepress/config.js
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ module.exports = {
             ['guide/vuex', 'Vuex'],
             ['guide/ajax', 'AJAX'],
             ['guide/loops', 'Using in Loops'],
+            ['guide/bigdata', 'Large Datasets'],
           ],
         },
         {
diff --git a/docs/.vuepress/enhanceApp.js b/docs/.vuepress/enhanceApp.js
index a3fac4d..5755185 100644
--- a/docs/.vuepress/enhanceApp.js
+++ b/docs/.vuepress/enhanceApp.js
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import vSelect from '../../src/components/Select';
 
 export default ({Vue, options, router, siteData}) => {
+  // Vue.config.performance = true;
+  Vue.config.devtools = true;
+
   Vue.component('v-select', vSelect);
 
   /**
diff --git a/docs/guide/bigdata.md b/docs/guide/bigdata.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f26b8bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/guide/bigdata.md
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Working with Big Datasets
+
+When your `options` array gets into the thousands, you will start to see performance dip. If you 
+have 2,000 options, you have 2,000 dom nodes being rendered into the dropdown. It's very difficult
+to render that many nodes at once and maintain 60fps in the browser. 
+
+Regardless of whether your options are primitives or objects, the performance hit comes from 
+rendering their text labels (or slot) to the dom. The path to keeping things snappy is then to limit
+the amount of nodes that get rendered to the dropdown. 
+
+## Optimized Filtering
+
+You can optimize performance by tweaking Vue Select's filtering and implementing it yourself. 
+Consider a list of airport codes with roughly ~7,500 entries. Rendering out 7,500 airports doesn't 
+actually help the user much, they're just looking for one in particular.
+
+<AirportCodes />
+
+The only difference between these two examples is the `filter` prop. Here's the `filter` for the
+optimized example:
+
+```js
+filter (airports, search) {
+  if (search.length === 0) {
+    return airports.slice(0, 50);
+  }
+  return airports.filter(airport => {
+    const keys = ['name', 'city', 'country', 'iata', 'icao'];
+    return keys.some(key => String(airport[key]).toLowerCase().includes(search.toLowerCase()))
+  }).slice(0, 50);
+}
+```  
+
+If there's no search text, we only display the first 50 options. If there is a search query, we'll
+check if any keys on the object include the search string. Again, we'll limit this to 50 options. 
+
+The key to have Vue Select perform well with thousands of options is to limit the number of options
+that are displayed to the end user, without hindering their ability to select the right option.
diff --git a/docs/package.json b/docs/package.json
index 1fcd52b..285dae6 100644
--- a/docs/package.json
+++ b/docs/package.json
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     "@vuepress/plugin-pwa": "^1.0.0-alpha.47",
     "@vuepress/plugin-register-components": "^1.0.0-alpha.47",
     "@vuepress/plugin-search": "^1.0.0-alpha.47",
+    "airport-data": "^1.0.1",
     "cross-env": "^5.2.0",
     "fuse.js": "^3.4.4",
     "gh-pages": "^0.11.0",
diff --git a/docs/yarn.lock b/docs/yarn.lock
index 8548f5b..43a28d3 100644
--- a/docs/yarn.lock
+++ b/docs/yarn.lock
@@ -1161,6 +1161,11 @@ agentkeepalive@^2.2.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/agentkeepalive/-/agentkeepalive-2.2.0.tgz#c5d1bd4b129008f1163f236f86e5faea2026e2ef"
   integrity sha1-xdG9SxKQCPEWPyNvhuX66iAm4u8=
 
+airport-data@^1.0.1:
+  version "1.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/airport-data/-/airport-data-1.0.1.tgz#41c743c48fc5b37765a1bd3cf0617c1de8151316"
+  integrity sha1-QcdDxI/Fs3dlob088GF8HegVExY=
+
 ajv-errors@^1.0.0:
   version "1.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ajv-errors/-/ajv-errors-1.0.1.tgz#f35986aceb91afadec4102fbd85014950cefa64d"