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“Only” 5 times slower? Imagine if every website that takes 10 seconds to load instead took 2 seconds…
by xigoi 9mo ago
“Only” 5 times slower? Imagine if every website that takes 10 seconds to load instead took 2 seconds…
- curtisblaine 9mo agoYou know that CPU-bound performance would take a really small fragment of those straw man 10 seconds loading a page, right?
- xigoi 9mo agoIf you think 10 seconds is a strawman, clearly you haven’t used sites like GitHub on a cheap device.
- iso1631 9mo agoBut that's not the javascript, it's how it's used (react or whatever) You can write terrible non-performant code in assembly and C, and perfectly speedy pages in html and javascript (say the page you're on at the moment). You wouldn't write a new cutting edge video codec in javascript - not one you wanted to use anyway - but given that we had performant guis running on 286s at 12MHz, Javascript being 1/10th the speed of C isn't the problem.
- curtisblaine 8mo agoCase in point, github is server side rendered. I don't think it uses any client side framework.
- xigoi 8mo agoTry opening it with JavaScript disabled and you will see exactly how much is server-side rendered.
- wiseowise 9mo ago> “Only” 5 times slower? Imagine if every website that takes 10 seconds to load instead took 2 seconds… All you need to know about the level of knowledge of average JS hater/muh native performance.