Comments on: Using Jquery to display your GitHub repos http://johnboxall.ca/2009/03/06/using-jquery-to-display-your-github-repos/ Genius billionaire playboy web developer. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John http://johnboxall.ca/2009/03/06/using-jquery-to-display-your-github-repos/comment-page-1/#comment-221 John Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:19:15 +0000 http://johnboxall.ca/?p=81#comment-221 Thanks for the excellent article Josh! Check out Josh's full reasoning here: http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/03/43439-reasons-to-use-append-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-71018 Without knowledge of JQuery's internal working it's very easy to write inefficient code. John Resig also had excellent post about profiling JS functions using FireUnit: http://ejohn.org/blog/function-call-profiling/ Thanks for the excellent article Josh! Check out Josh’s full reasoning here:
http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/03/43439-reasons-to-use-append-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-71018

Without knowledge of JQuery’s internal working it’s very easy to write inefficient code.

John Resig also had excellent post about profiling JS functions using FireUnit:
http://ejohn.org/blog/function-call-profiling/

]]> By: Josh Powell http://johnboxall.ca/2009/03/06/using-jquery-to-display-your-github-repos/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Josh Powell Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:03:33 +0000 http://johnboxall.ca/?p=81#comment-219 Thanks John, you made my day :) One thing I learned after writing the article, and added in the first comment, was that it is much quicker to append a single node with a lot of children then it is to append a bunch of nodes. So in your example above, if you could find a way to append the complete list instead of the list items it would be measurably quicker. Possibly use replaceWith() or replaceAll() instead of append. Thanks John, you made my day :) One thing I learned after writing the article, and added in the first comment, was that it is much quicker to append a single node with a lot of children then it is to append a bunch of nodes. So in your example above, if you could find a way to append the complete list instead of the list items it would be measurably quicker. Possibly use replaceWith() or replaceAll() instead of append.

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