[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-15 Thread timothytoe
>>Also, the jQuery file only has to be transfered once to each person that used it. Then the browser just uses the cached file. Well, that depends on a lot of things. :-)

[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-15 Thread Dan
If the loading time of the jQuery file is a real problem, you could look at gzipping it. This will make it more compact while it transfers from the server to the browser. It's something a lot of web developers over look and easily quadrupled the speed of the files I was looking at. Also, the jQue

[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-14 Thread Michael Geary
Um, the difference between 300ms and 800ms is half a second! :-) But I agree that the SlickSpeed test doesn't mean much. What counts is how fast it is with the code you actually write. And a little optimization in your own code will usually take care of any speed problems (e.g. Don't repeat an ex

[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-14 Thread Abdul-Rahman Advany
Thnx for responding, sorry I didn't search on SlickSpeed, should have though of that! On Jun 14, 5:06 am, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abdul... > > Please do a Google search through the groups archive for messages regarding > the SlickSpeed tests. Even the authors of the test admi

[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Matthews
Abdul... Please do a Google search through the groups archive for messages regarding the SlickSpeed tests. Even the authors of the test admit it contains many examples that aren't real world. Besides...while speed is important, the difference between 300ms and 800ms is negligible. Further I'd tot

[jQuery] Re: I love JQuery but why is it slower than Dojo and ExtJS Core

2008-06-13 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Abdul, We've addressed this question several times and I'd ask that you do a search of the archives for more feedback. Our selector performance is excellent across all browsers and we've not heard any complaints from companies such as the BBC, Digg, Google or Amazon about selector perfor