How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90% of it in the trash

Re:How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90... by dvdhnt on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:53PM (#15272611)

Huh, do you have a source on that statement?

I'm not disagreeing with you, I actually don't know, and am always happy to learn useful facts for refactoring and improved performance :)

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Re:How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90... by satori99 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:13PM (#15272698)

There are plenty of online benchmarks that show this. jsperf is down for me atm, so i can't provide a link.

Some of the popular JS frameworks actually re-implement an array.forEach function as an internal for-loop to mitigate this.

I am not sure of why this is the case, and I am also not sure if the situation has improved or not since I last had to deal with the performance difference.

edit: The mozilla page about this has a polyfill for the forEach method, that shows it does more than a simple for loop:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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Re:How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90... by dvdhnt on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:42AM (#15276871)

Cool, thanks!

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