Best of Performance — January 2022

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   Pointer·4y

   The baseline for web development in 2022

   Alan Dávalos is a front-end engineer at LINE. He analyzed the changes in the web between 2021 and 2022. The biggest change that happened in 2021 was the retirement of Internet Explorer (IE) The new baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in Terms of Web Standards, and 4G.

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   Svelte Blog·4y

   What's new in Svelte: January 2022

   Faster builds with SvelteKit and a much anticipated REPL feature. A lot of work this month has gone into migrating the S Velte main website to live in the GitHub repository. Tangent, a Svelter-based note writing app, is now in beta.

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   gitconnected·4y

   100x Faster Data Processing in Javascript

   Polars DataFrame & Series offer unparalleled performance. Polars delivers this amazing performance by leveraging a multi-threaded Rust backend. A series of benchmarks were performed comparing Polars to other commonly used libraries from NPM. The 10k Dataset read operations were ~40x faster. Filtering was ~15x faster than the nativefs module.

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   Dev Genius·4y

   A Primer on WebAssembly

   In 2022, I will be diving into the world of WebAssembly and Rust. To understand why there was a requirement for WebAssembly, let’s take a stroll down memory lane. The world wide web, as we know it today, started off as a single page project on a NeXT computer at CERN.

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