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Parens And Performance

Years ago, some smart folks that worked on JS engines realized that not all JS that's loaded into a page/app initially is needed right away. They implemented JIT to optimize this situation.

JIT means Just-In-Time, which means essentially that the engine can defer processing (parsing, compiling) certain parts of a JS program until a later time, for example when the function in question is actually needed. This deferral means the engine is freer to spend the important cycles right now on the code that's going to run right now. This is a really good thing for JS performance.

Some time later, some JS engine devs realized that they needed to get some hints from the code as to which functions would run right away, and which ones wouldn't. In technical speak, these hints are called heuristics.

So they realized that one very common pattern for knowing that a function was going to run right away is if the first character before the function keyword was a (, because that usually m

@lornajane
lornajane / mac.md
Last active June 21, 2024 13:07
Keyboard Only OS X

Keyboard-only Mac Cheatsheet

Hi, I'm Lorna and I don't use a mouse. I have had RSI issues since a bad workstation setup at work in 2006. I've tried a number of extra hardware modifications but what works best for me is to use the keyboard and only the keyboard, so I'm in a good position and never reaching for anything else (except my coffee cup!). I rather unwisely took a job which required me to use a mac (I've been a linux user until now and also had the ability to choose my tools carefully) so here is my cheatsheet of the apps, tricks and keyboard shortcuts I'm using, mostly for my own reference. Since keyboard-only use is also great for productivity, you may also find some of these ideas useful, in which case at least something good has come of this :)

Apps List

There's more detail on a few of these apps but here is a quick overview of the tools I've installed and found helpful

Tool Link Comments
@spaze
spaze / sktorrentanalysis.txt
Created February 23, 2016 16:18
Password analysis of SkTorrent.eu dump
Basic Results
Total entries = 118566
Total unique entries = 98397
Top 10 passwords
FuckYou = 864 (0.73%)
123456 = 739 (0.62%)
123456789 = 677 (0.57%)
NULL = 175 (0.15%)
@redhead
redhead / live-form-validation.js
Created August 26, 2010 21:16
Live Form Validation for Nette 2.0
/**
* Live Form Validation for Nette 2.0
*
* @author Radek Ježdík, MartyIX, David Grudl
*/
var LiveForm = {
options: {
controlErrorClass: 'form-control-error', // CSS class for an invalid control
errorMessageClass: 'form-error-message', // CSS class for an error message