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Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:05AM (#16903024)
It might be slightly better, but still far from performance I would expect from that component

https://gfycat.com/TerribleWeeArmadillo

Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by chuckhendo on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:12AM (#16903089)
Is this Edge? I can confirm poor performance in Edge, but every other browse I've looked at seems to be ok.
Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:18AM (#16903125)
That's Firefox on arch linux
Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by zzarcon on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:12AM (#16903081)
Interesting... will have a deeper look into it, if you have any idea on how to make it better you are welcome
Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:14AM (#16903097)
I actually work on low latency Java backends, I have no idea how this works ;)
Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by rmrfrmrf on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:41AM (#16903287)
> low latency Java

(Does not compute)

Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#16903300)
Sure it doesnt ;)

The think that myth is coming from the fact that JVM is heavy (150MB?), so it takes time to start, and hot-spot needs some iterations on a source code before it can fully apply JIT, but other that that, Java is really good.