I am sorry for my accusatory email, I was having a rough day and put a "tone" to what I was reading that was inappropriate. Completely my fault.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:40 AM, RobG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 22, 2:47 am, Shane Tomlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Balazs, like I said, I already know it is a premature optimization. But, > I > > still want to know what the reason would be why these discrepancies > exist. > > To know exactly why you'll need to talk to a browser developer. If you > can convince them it's a genuine performance issue, I'm sure they can > optimise that part of the engine. But I suspect they aren't concerned. > > > > And to your comment about if I have to perform a loop, then I'm not > doing > > it right - you don't know what the JS is being used for, nor do I, I am > > thinking in a theoretical sense if somebody was using a web worker to > > process large data sets, perhaps some sort of image manipulation, and in > > that sense, this is a perfectly legitamate question. In this > > scenario, perhaps I'm not creating many millions of objects per second, > but > > I have a couple of objects created that have to call some sort of > superclass > > function once per operation. > > Perhaps, but the point being made was that the component of execution > time that is attributable to call or apply is insignificant compared > to whatever else is being processed, even if one was twice as fast as > the other. > > > Either way, the .call, .apply, etc would still > > be used many millions of times. So thanks for the answer, and before > > flaming the next person > > It wasn't a flame. > > -- > Rob > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jsmentors%[email protected]> > -- --------------------------------------------------- http://www.shanetomlinson.com http://www.aframejs.com - a Javascript MVC library making traditional app development in the browser much easier -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
