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have you considered moving the simulation to worker(s), and providing the game state to the render function through a SharedArrayBuffer?
Re:Imba: A new programming language for web apps on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:38PM (#10905311)
If I had to guess, the use of requestAnimationFrame https://github.com/somebee/imba/blob/7ab3d380562b8e6cd09ab09...
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Re:WinJS: The Windows Library for JavaScript on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:45PM (#9688117)
I went to the 'try it out' page here http://try.buildwinjs.com/#listviewinteractions

and noticed a ton of jank while scrolling. A quick look at chrome's timeline reveals a nasty listener leak. Hopefully, it's user error and not a flaw in the library.

Beautifully designed, and props to the engineers for keeping everything so snappy, even with all the animations. Really quality work.
Fixed, thanks
Yeah, check some of the examples in the readme
Static analysis is one of the end goals of this project; the other is generating documentation.

Decorators are definitely NOT needed for achieving the current functionality.

es7 decorators can also be used on vanilla objects, not just classes.
Thanks. My phone doesn't know what programming is :(
Re:Why have today's designers stopped dreaming? on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:27AM (#7581386)
how unfortunate it would be if we found ourselves on a local maxima and maintained this attitude

Clean web workers using callbacks

https://github.com/BigIroh/Ozai

This library is a project I made to make web worker code easier to write and easier to read. As they stand, getting use out of web workers involves writing a series of messages and responses that are not standardized in any way between authors. The library I have created, Ozai, creates a web worker by passing a javascript object literal to its constructor. The result is a client-side object...

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