Speed Up Your JavaScript

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a classic JavaScript performance talk whose fundamentals about reflow and efficient code still apply.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google TechTalks

Topic

javascript performance

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The only other video that sticks out in mine head is this Google Tech Talk by Nicholas Zakas about javascript performance. [VIDEO] Besides videos, check out Javascript Garden: [LINK] Javascript Weblog: [LINK] Here are some links over on Quora: [LINK] The three books worth getting …

• Classics John Resig : The Dom is a mess [LINK] Javascript, The Good Parts [LINK] Speed up your Javascript [VIDEO] Brendan Eich : Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble" [LINK] Paul Irish : 10 things I learned from the Jquery source …

• You need to think about what the browser is actually doing when it displays a web page. You need to think about what happens when you type the URL in and what the browser is doing conceptually. If you have any experience programming 2D graphics …