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Re:Nine Javascript Gotchas by gruseom on Thursday February 14, 2008 @05:27PM (#116125)
My JS is compiled from higher-level source; at the source level there is no duplication and it's simpler to use a variable. Moroever, using getElementById is 60% slower than a global variable in FF and more than 10x slower in IE. For the app I'm building, this matters a lot.
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Re:Nine Javascript Gotchas by aston on Thursday February 14, 2008 @06:54PM (#116165)
Of course it's faster to use a precomputed reference than to find an element in the DOM. I can't see the "overhead" of manually storing a reference to a DOM element in a variable ever mattering in any application. Grab it once and you're done.
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Re:Nine Javascript Gotchas by eusman on Thursday February 14, 2008 @07:57PM (#116195)
the only sure thing is that the whole javascript perfomance/memory footprint/cross-browser/degrade challenge can drive someone crazy!
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