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Re:Notch trying jsFiddle by scottyallen on Sunday December 02, 2012 @06:51PM (#4863155)
Good point, I hadn't thought about the fact they might be polling for changes. Might be better if livecoding used an event based model to check for updates...
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Re:Notch trying jsFiddle by akx on Monday December 03, 2012 @04:06AM (#4864583)
Or if it works at all like Scrubby (http://nornagon.github.com/scrubby/) which was on HN a couple days ago, it might rewrite all constants into global lookup table indexes, which surely wreaks havoc on performance.
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Re:Notch trying jsFiddle by dxq on Monday December 03, 2012 @04:33PM (#4867981)
How do you suppose event-based models are notified of changes? Ultimately you are still polling, you're just abstracting it out of your higher-level design.
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