Thanks to node.js, using the same code on the server and client is easier than ever. What about running application code in the database? If you have a function that is expensive to compute, but always returns the same result for the same input, then you could get a significant speedup by having your database cache the results of the computation ahead of time. This […]
Month: October 2014
Jankproof Javascript
Javascript is getting faster all the time, but things like long lists of complex cells are always going to be expensive to compute. To solve this, I wrote the unjank module last week. It helps you do expensive things in Javascript without causing the user experience to suffer. I’m happy to report that after a week of production use, it’s clear that this technique is […]