Summary: Avoid $$(".classname") on large DOMs!!! I've recently been optimising the guts out of a JS webapp I wrote, which was making IE crawl to a halt. I discovered this after introducing a stress-inducing data set. (Using Rails' fixtures makes light work of this; since the fixtures are Ruby templates just like the web templates, it's [...]
Lessons in Javascript Performance Optimisation: 90 seconds down to 3 seconds
September 26th, 2006 · 10 Comments
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