Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend (JS Party #41)

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English - August 31, 2018 17:00 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratings
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KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

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Featuring:

Chad Hietala – Twitter, GitHubKevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:

Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler

Glimmer

The Glimmer Binary Experience
The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
Experiments porting Glimmer VM pieces to WASM

The performance costs of parse/compile:

The Cost of JavaScript

Precompilation:

Svelte
Prepack

Moving sourcemaps to webassembly: