Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by cel1ne on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:14AM
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Yes, and the main culprit of JavaScript is excessive GC, because of excessive object-creation.
Developers are careless because JS is so fast, but they forget the hundreds of milliseconds of GC-pauses that occur because they never think about the memory they are allocating and throwing away each second.
Developers are careless because JS is so fast, but they forget the hundreds of milliseconds of GC-pauses that occur because they never think about the memory they are allocating and throwing away each second.