base2 is made by Dean Edwards - he's an incredibly smart JavaScript hacker, and a huge jQuery fan. I respect his work a lot.
The trick is that his library, which only does selectors and basic DOM additions, comes in at 20kb - the same size as jQuery complete (which includes Ajax, Effects, etc.) I have some speed improvements sitting around that need to be merged in and tested some more. I'm hoping to get them in for jQuery 1.1.3. When I last tested, the improvements helped to bring us up to around the level of DOMQuery. Which, I feel, is a good place to be. I'll be sure to post an update once I've tested these changes further. --John On 3/22/07, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is this base2 deal? I ran the test, but wanted to read more about > it. I went to http://homepages.nildram.co.uk to see if I could find out > more, but couldn't. I did a google for 'base2 javascript' but of course > it just comes up with stuff about binary and such. > > John. I'd like to hear what you think about this. Do you think the > improvements you have planned will improve speed? This does not sway my > opinion of jQuery as being one of the coolest things since micro-chips > and mail order brides! And I wouldn't jump ship. jQuery is just too damn > cool. I'm just curious. > > How do you think they pulled off all those 0.0ms times? I know the > speedtest screen is supposed to show the major javascript > libraries/frameworks side-by-side, but since this base2 gets an almost > "perfect" score the cynic in me feels like somethings not on the level, > especially when I can't seem to find out more information. > > Chris > > John Resig wrote: > > Yep! About a month ago, we were the fastest, but we've been > > leap-frogged! I've got some improvements that I'd like to get in for > > 1.1.3, but I need to do some more testing on them, to make sure that > > they're bug free. > > > > --John > > > > On 3/22/07, codar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Please check this: > >> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/%7E9jack9/base2/speedtest/ > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://www.nabble.com/Is-the-JQuery-slowest--tf3448821.html#a9618984 > >> Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> jQuery mailing list > >> discuss@jquery.com > >> http://jquery.com/discuss/ > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jQuery mailing list > > discuss@jquery.com > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > -- > http://www.cjordan.us > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
