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Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2014-06-24 · latest 2018-04-20

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  1. …motivation for building this was to make a better way to use an optimization library like fast.js ( https://github.com/codemix/fast.js ), which inspired faster.js. A huge issue with the fast.js library is that you have to rewrite your…
  2. Yes, and also this: https://github.com/codemix/fast.js/tree/master
    comment by spyder · 2015-07-04 · in ES6 Performance
  3. …large objects/arrays. A good read on the subject of performance and native method replacements: https://github.com/codemix/fast.js/tree/master#how
  4. Amazing, the "performance tests" here operate on a list of only ten items long: https://github.com/codemix/fast.js/blob/master/bench/for-eac... I'm sure that is a statistically valid way to measure performance.
  5. This is mentioned in the readme: https://github.com/codemix/fast.js#how The two functions do not necessarily work the same way - the native implementation handles edge cases that the fast version drops.