For JavaScripters: two interesting articles on speed, responsiveness and performance
First of all, check out Australia’s own Patrick Lee who very deftly writes about a few things that a UI developer working in JavaScript and interacting with the DOM can and should do to maintain UI responsiveness, all couched in terms of the three basic thresholds from Robert Miller’s classic1968 paper Response Time in Man-Computer Conversational Transactions. Smart smart smart!
And here’s something interesting from another very smart person about Javascript performance.
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