Ember did something like this but it made writing Ajax endpoints a giant pain in the ass. It’s been so long since I used ember that I’ve forgotten the terms, b

Ember did something like this but it made writing Ajax endpoints a giant pain in the ass. It’s been so long since I used ember that I’ve forgotten the terms, but essentially the rearranged the tree structure so that some of the children were at the end of the file. I believe it was meant to handle DAGs more efficiently but I may have hallucinated that recollection. But if you’re using a SAX style streaming parser you can start making progress on painting and perhaps follow-up questions while the initial data is still loading. Of course in a single threaded VM, you can snatch Defeat from the jaws of Victory if you bollocks up the order of operations through direct mistakes or code evolution over time.