Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-16 Thread Jon Hancock
micro-benchmarks like this _can_ be important. If there are functions which can be normalized in performance relative to other libraries it is foolish to not do so. In my first week with jQuery, I have seen a few visually sluggish behaviors that did not occur in Prototype or dojo!!..I will be

Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-16 Thread Dave Methvin
> So our points of optimization should be on plain tag selectors, > and expressions that return no elements. > -- Yehuda Let's not get too carried away based on this single benchmark. It is only checking a few things and I am not convinced they representative of bottlenecks in real code. For ex

Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-16 Thread Yehuda Katz
So our points of optimization should be on plain tag selectors, and expressions that return no elements.-- YehudaOn 10/16/06, Rey Bango < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:For those without a Google login, you can see the results here; http://www.intoajax.com/pvjcompare.jpgI also posted this in the Ajaxian

Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-16 Thread Rey Bango
For those without a Google login, you can see the results here; http://www.intoajax.com/pvjcompare.jpg I also posted this in the Ajaxian entry and Claudio's blog to give people an alternative view. Rey... Rey Bango wrote: > These numbers have already been invalidated here: > > http://0nz.spre

Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-16 Thread Rey Bango
These numbers have already been invalidated here: http://0nz.spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?id=o04790098234894520511.5178455417629729589.12842749026303919978.6392792159332293656 One of people that commented on Claudio's posting ran the tests himself and got very different results. Dean Edwards als

Re: [jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-15 Thread Will Jessup
Looks like jquery and prototype both win and lose nearly the same amount of tests. They also didn't factor in the initial loading size of the prototype library, or the time saved by writing jquery syntax. This is about as fair as a political debate. Will > hey all, anyone else seen this too? >

[jQuery] Benchmark: Prototype and jQuery

2006-10-15 Thread Nilesh Patel
hey all, anyone else seen this too? http://ajaxian.com/archives/benchmark-prototype-and-jquery Claudio Cicali thinks benchmarks are boring and useless, so he decided to conduct a series of micro-benchmarks of CSS selector tests with both Prototype and jQuery. He decided to do this after he saw