Re:You might not need jQuery
by Dylan16807 on Friday January 31, 2014 @04:20PM
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Think of it as a fifth of your time budget spent doing nothing.
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Most modern browsers are able to paint while loading script files, especially if you put your script files at the bottom of the page, where they belong. So, no, 20ms of parsing, compiling, and a small amount of execution is not a lot of time. Period.