High Performance JavaScript
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it to explain why DOM access is expensive and how setTimeout and the UI queue behave in the browser.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2013 to 2014.
What it is
A 2010 BayJax meetup panel at Yahoo with five contributors to O'Reilly's "High Performance JavaScript": Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte and Matt Sweeney. They cover JavaScript and DOM scripting optimizations, including how the browser queues script execution and UI updates.
What people said
Recommends Volune · 2014-08 · Stack Overflow · on “browser does not show message before a javascript function completes its execution”
Here are some explanations about the queuing of javascript execution and UI updates : Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful? [LINK] and video High Performance JavaScript [this video] at 17:40
Cites Amy · 2013-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Reorder the options in a select box with javascript”
@SpencerLockhart Cools. Performance isn't what people normally think of. I've watched a few of Nicholas Zakas' youtube vidoes and he made it apparent that accessing the DOM is an expensive operation. Here's one: [this video]
Cites Arley Triana Morin · 2014-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful?”
High Performance JavaScript [this video] (Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, and Matt Sweeney)