Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it means

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by marcosvm on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:35PM (#3449159)

Rewriting the front-end using Javascript and Backbone won't fix the backend problems necessarily. How about reducing the objects creation and tuning the backend too?

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Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by jroll on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:00PM (#3449274)

They discussed this in the post. They found that the templating was the source of many of the objects, as Ruby creates new objects when performing string concatenation.

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