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13y ago
Hi Matthew, So, first, it's not the mark of failure for their to only be a high or low-level version of some capability in the platform; at least not immediately. The issue arises when, having exposed one or the other, we [users|vendor
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14y ago
Object.create() creates no closure. You've already paid for in the context in which you're .create()-ing. In any case, performance optimization is what happens when something becomes common enough to work its way into benchmarks. And callin
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14y ago
Hi gruseom: I'm the author of the original post. There seems to be some serious (willful?) misunderstanding here about what is being proposed. Instead of adding something foreign, the class syntax that we've nearly got settled is sugar for
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14y ago
#1 is just FUD. JavaScript is JavaScript. Class in JS is a shorthand for function and functions prototypically delegate. That you're not writing in Java/Python/C#/Ruby should be pretty obvious. #2 doesn't bear much relationship to reality.
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16y ago
Wait, you don't think accounting is a creative sport? Hmmm.
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16y ago
Mihai covered it. Here's my rundown: http://infrequently.org/2011/01/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-s...
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16y ago
It's likely that my understanding of the situation is at least partially confused. The "SuperFetch" branding covers a lot of systems with some observably complex interactions. From my recollection of the XPerf traces, we saw misses 10+ MB b
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16y ago
Define "logical internal structure"? Most code in a library won't be differentiated by use unless you can provide WPO or PGO-based feedback that you trust as representative. As for the next obvious question ("why not just read in the whole
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16y ago
SuperFetch only hits the first 10 meg of a DLL. If any of these are larger than that, you'll still see significant thrashing on pages located further back in the binaries. I implemented a similar solution for chrome.dll last summer and it h