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When GMail was launched, everybody was amazed of how fast it ran. The way it was optimized for IE6 was that the team decompiled it and understood how the JavaS
by xiphias2 7y ago
When GMail was launched, everybody was amazed of how fast it ran.
The way it was optimized for IE6 was that the team decompiled it and understood how the JavaScript engine and the garbage collector were working underneath and got around them. The team went out their way to optimize for the large number of emails that are used insided Google.
The project of course was a huge success.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoWhen DOOM game came out everybody was amazed as well. Same with windows and osx. Many things about computers were understood during this time and were huge successes. But did you know that the fourier wave hit quantum apex and therefore logic was inescapable. But what's most amazing is how irrelevant your post is to what I'm talking about.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoIf I understand, xiphias2 is agreeing with you - that Gmail went "behind" the abstractions, and was the better for it. That is, when you pushed the abstractions as far as GMail needed to, the abstractions leaked.