Performance
Measuring and improving the speed of code, mostly JavaScript. 5 articles.
Comparison of JavaScript binary data objects
The objects JavaScript offers for binary data, from ArrayBuffer and typed arrays to Node's Buffer, and how they differ between Node.js and the browser.
15 March 2023FastArray (draft)
A draft of a trie-like array allowing fast insertion and removal at any index, sketched in JavaScript and PHP.
15 March 2023Some JavaScript performance comparisons
Rough timings, over a million iterations, of the different ways JavaScript lets you do the same common things.
14 March 2023Simple speedups
Simple ways to speed up a Web application, starting with application startup time.
16 March 2018The Google V8 engine
Google have been working hard to make JavaScript fast: V8 raises the bar with JIT compilation tuned to real usage patterns.
6 April 2010