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When performance matters, or you are doing things on an order of magnitude, you may want to skip jquery

• corobo 11y ago
  Do you have any examples or writeups to hand where rewriting jQuery functions ended up in a faster site? Specifically in cases where other optimizations (caching, beefier servers, faster SQL, SSDs vs HDDs, etc) didn't help more?
  • Aldo_MX 11y ago
    So if I buy a beefier server, my users with a netbook (ca. 2007) will feel a responsive[1] website? [1] Responsive as in "Mozilla Firefox is not responding", not as in "Responsive Design".
    • corobo 11y ago
      Good point, not well made. Thanks for the response.
  • vorotato 11y ago
    Beefing up the server cannot improve client side code. Jquery is quite slow, nice, but quite slow. Sometimes writing out those 8 lines can make your code literally 400 times faster.(source : http://vanilla-js.com/ http://vanilla-js.com/) So yes if performance is a concern, you might want to look at writing it yourself.
    • corobo 11y ago
      Very good point, I'd not really considered the lower end spec'd machines, was more thinking overall page load times and the likes. Thanks :)