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There is a pretty good comment on Hacker News (of all places) by nostrademons explaining why the DOM is not slow . Basically, all the DOM mutation operations are pretty trivial. Inserting and removing nodes, moving them around, setting an attribute, etc. It’s layout that takes a while and layout can be synchronously…
One of the most annoying problems in Swift is when the compiler gives an 'Expression was too complex to be solved in a reasonable time' error. I look at why this error occurs, how to avoid it and talk about how this should be solved in a future compiler update.
The Python Package Index, or as most call it “PyPI” is a central part of the ecosystem of Python. It serves as a central registry of names, helping to prevent collision between different projects as well as the default repository that most Python users go to when looking for software. Though it has its issues (of…
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
Do they know what the hell they're doing?
About two weeks ago we released ColorizeBot to wander around Reddit. This Reddit bot has started by coloring images on r/OldSchoolCool and a day after, spread all over Reddit. The bot was based on a pre-trained neural network - More information on the netwrok can be found here. After
Edit (June 2018): Unicode 11 is released, containing the half stars. Now the wait for font support... Star characters (☆★) have long b...
A flash of intuition while trying to find a way to lend brian d foy a hand in his search for excellent numbers helped me reduce run time by 95 percent.
Few weeks ago a bug was filed against Dart SDK citing "very low performance of String.substring " . Here is a core of microbenchmark developer submitted together with the issue:
Every day has 24 hours
The new Windows 10 update coming in a few weeks. It's called Windows 10 ...
ffmpeg is a wonderful library for creating video applications or even general purpose utilities. ffmpeg takes care of all the hard work of video processing by doing all the decoding, encoding, muxing and demuxing for you. This can make media applications much simpler to write. It's simple, written in C, fast, and can…
The story of why it is important to make sure that it is easy to switch from one service to another.
You find the latest version of my book at the usual place at This now contains all the material that I plan to put into it. New are “experience” parts about performance, function-like m…
C++ has changed a lot in recent years. The last two revisions, C++11 and C++14, introduce so many new features that, in the words of Bjarne Stroustrup, “It feels like a new …
A while back I decided to try to write a Game Boy emulator in Common Lisp based on this series of articles . I made some good progress but eventually got bogged down because I was trying to learn a bunch of complex new things at once:
