Archive for the 'Performance' Category

Speed Testing Chrome for List Processing

Monday, September 8th, 2008

What are we testing?
As Rich Internet Application development progresses, more and more developers are moving towards the functional programming capabilities of JavaScript.
First Order Functions, Closures, Macros and Lists are becoming a mainstream method of development.
When you can tell the computer how to do it, rather that listing what it needs to do, it becomes much [...]

Performance Testing in JavaScript

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Fast pages and quick load times are key factors to keeping visitors on your site.
If you make them wait, they will leave.
So the speed of your JavaScript applications is crucial.
Fortunately, it turns out that JavaScript applications are ripe for performance optimization.
This requires a strong testing framework… enter JSTR.
String Concatenation Performance
A simple example of the type [...]

Byting the hand that feeds you…