Re: The state of Prototype's JavaScript.
| From: | Stewart Lord | Date: | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:11:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: The state of Prototype's JavaScript. | ||
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On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Levi Morrison wrote:
> I don't mean to offend the author(s) because the biggest thing is that
> it works. Well done on that part. However, the whole file is filled
> with this stuff and worse. They regularly find classes, which is an
> expensive operation, and then don't save the results to a variable to
> reuse again in the same function.
Not to say that the JS doesn't deserve some clean-up, but you really shouldn't worry about
performance. Finding based on classes is generally a good practice. Same goes for using a framework
like jQuery. It helps avoid browser issues, etc.
Last time I checked JS was really fast. Like 10 times faster than PHP fast. For the sorts of things
the prototype site is doing it should be a non-issue.
Stew