John, thanks for taking the time to respond, and give a brief explanation. You may not know the answer to this, but if he's around on the list maybe he can answer: why isn't Dean Edwards working on the dev team? I assume he's just not shown an interest?
Dean, buddy. What's up? ;o) Chris John Resig wrote: > base2 is made by Dean Edwards - he's an incredibly smart JavaScript > hacker, and a huge jQuery fan. I respect his work a lot. > > The trick is that his library, which only does selectors and basic DOM > additions, comes in at 20kb - the same size as jQuery complete (which > includes Ajax, Effects, etc.) > > I have some speed improvements sitting around that need to be merged > in and tested some more. I'm hoping to get them in for jQuery 1.1.3. > When I last tested, the improvements helped to bring us up to around > the level of DOMQuery. Which, I feel, is a good place to be. > > I'll be sure to post an update once I've tested these changes further. > > --John > > On 3/22/07, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is this base2 deal? I ran the test, but wanted to read more about >> it. I went to http://homepages.nildram.co.uk to see if I could find out >> more, but couldn't. I did a google for 'base2 javascript' but of course >> it just comes up with stuff about binary and such. >> >> John. I'd like to hear what you think about this. Do you think the >> improvements you have planned will improve speed? This does not sway my >> opinion of jQuery as being one of the coolest things since micro-chips >> and mail order brides! And I wouldn't jump ship. jQuery is just too damn >> cool. I'm just curious. >> >> How do you think they pulled off all those 0.0ms times? I know the >> speedtest screen is supposed to show the major javascript >> libraries/frameworks side-by-side, but since this base2 gets an almost >> "perfect" score the cynic in me feels like somethings not on the level, >> especially when I can't seem to find out more information. >> >> Chris >> >> John Resig wrote: >>> Yep! About a month ago, we were the fastest, but we've been >>> leap-frogged! I've got some improvements that I'd like to get in for >>> 1.1.3, but I need to do some more testing on them, to make sure that >>> they're bug free. >>> >>> --John >>> >>> On 3/22/07, codar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Please check this: >>>> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/%7E9jack9/base2/speedtest/ >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://www.nabble.com/Is-the-JQuery-slowest--tf3448821.html#a9618984 >>>> Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> jQuery mailing list >>>> discuss@jquery.com >>>> http://jquery.com/discuss/ >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> jQuery mailing list >>> discuss@jquery.com >>> http://jquery.com/discuss/ >>> >> -- >> http://www.cjordan.us >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jQuery mailing list >> discuss@jquery.com >> http://jquery.com/discuss/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > -- http://www.cjordan.us _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
