Update: The original post on Netmag has been updated since this was written.
This is a response to an article posted on Net Magazine earlier this week that offers optimization tips for those writing JavaScript. Generally, these performance-related articles are inaccurate and harmful to new Front-End Developers trying to understand the craft -- there are many other things you should do to improve a page's performance before worrying about the purported perf hit of multiplication vs. division -- while the intention of this post may have been to inform and educate it did the opposite: it offered inaccurate advice.
A few of us have taken the time to assemble a list of corrections in the hope that Net Magazine will update the article and avoid lead