prit wrote: > But recently I noticed a website http://mootools.net/slickspeed/ which > compares 3 frameworks including jQuery. I ran the tests on that site > and noticed that they show jQuery as the slowest performer out of the > 3 frameworks (Mootools, Prototype and jQuery). > > Does anybody have comments on this ? >
jQuery isn't the fastest library (although it's getting faster all the time). The things to bear in mind: 1. It's the smallest library = pages download faster so even if the JS is a fraction of a second slower, you won't notice the difference 2. Code that uses jQuery is generally very concise = smaller pages = faster downloads 3. In real-world use the effects of most normal JS is negligible compared to the time it takes to download images, etc.
