Tag Archives: speed

Now you see me… show/hide performance – Learning jQuery

Essen­tially the jQuery func­tions show and hide are the slow­est and selec­tive enable/disable of a stylesheet is the fastest pos­si­ble method of hid­ing a DOM element.

May 30, 2010 – 2:57 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Why Java Is Not As Fast As C

The age old ques­tion of speed in pro­gram­ming languages.

January 2, 2010 – 3:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Firefox vs. Chrome

PC World yes­ter­day ran a piece on Chrome and Fire­fox, com­par­ing the two and essen­tially Fire­fox was dead and Chrome was going to win the lat­est browser bat­tle. Run Chrome and Fire­fox side-by-side, and Fire­fox is embar­rass­ingly slow. It’s not even in the same league. It’s an old man on the run­ning track try­ing to …

March 21, 2009 – 4:21 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)