One of the reasons that these libraries have made substantial
improvements has been that jQuery has lead the pack in terms of
innovation and our efforts have motivated them to finally improve their
frameworks. Prototype is probably the best example of this, having been
forced to finally formalize the project after sitting in limbo for
almost a year, add chaining and even improve its DOM querying.
With that said, its definitely our turn to get things ramped up but
we're kind of in a quandary. See, one of the benefits of jQuery is its
very small file size. We're still the smallest library out there and our
overall functionality is on par with any of the ones listed. In terms of
overall ease of use, I still think we're the leader. But in keeping a
small size we're limited in how much tweaking can be done. Neither PT,
Ext or Moo have limitations on file size so they have the flexibility
to add much more code to enhance their speed than we do. Our core team
certainly has the talent to greatly enhance the selector speeds but we
want to continue to provide a nice, small package.
So at the end of the day, it comes down to this:
- We can increase selector speeds at the expense of file size
or
- We can continue to focus on providing tight code in a small package
and take what is arguably a small hit in speed
The reason I say arguably is because unless you're manipulating a HUGE
amount of selectors, I'm not sure how much of a visual difference you
would see. I know this has been discussed before and that was pretty
much the consensus (ie: small # of selectors, no big deal. Large # of
selectors, possible concern).
Considering that we are, IMO, the project thats most in tune with its
community, your feedback is definitely most welcome.
Rey...
Bil Corry wrote:
Bil Corry wrote on 6/12/2007 6:43 AM:
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SlickSpeed is a CSS selector test suite provided by the MooTools folk.
This tool comes at the same time as they release CSS3 support in
Mootools, and it compares Prototype, jQuery, MooTools, Ext, and CSS
Query.
<http://ajaxian.com/archives/slickspeed-css-selector-testsuite>
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Opps, meant to post the results I got:
MooTools 1.2dev: 208 ms
prototype 1.5.1: 231 ms
ext 1.1b1: 1385 ms
jQuery 1.1.2dev: 5678 ms <-- jQuery!
cssQuery 2.02: 6995 ms
- Bil
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