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Interesting. Is parse time generally a function of code length, or overall complexity/CPU time?

• pamelafox 15y ago
  (I'm not an expert) but it's more than simply code length - it also depends on if the library runs any functions at parse time, and perhaps also how many variables it puts in the global space. For example: I discovered that my tiny localStorage library was taking 300ms to load, and that was because I was doing feature detection at parse-time and that feature detection attempted to actually set an item in localStorage. I postponed that, and got the load time down to 20ms.