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Speeding up with ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays

This post is about how ArrayBuffers and their views allow you to easily out-perform standard Arrays. Whenever I implement an algorithm in JavaScript and want to improve the execution time, I always start by trying to find a way to convert my Arrays to Typed Arrays. It's an

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Writing a Brainfuck Interpreter in JavaScript

Can JavaScript compete with Kattis solutions written in C?

Optimising Image Delivery on the Web

When serving a page on the web, you're usually serving some images along with it. If those images are above the fold, you usually want to load them as quickly as possible. Anything below the fold, you want to postpone to leave bandwidth for the important stuff. This

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Writing the fastest XML parser for JavaScript

While building some reusable map layers for a side-project using Danish map data, I had to parse some quite large XML files containing polygons representing various regions of Denmark and convert it to a JavaScript object.

Speeding up with ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays

Writing a Brainfuck Interpreter in JavaScript

Optimising Image Delivery on the Web

Writing the fastest XML parser for JavaScript

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