JC Fant IV
About
JC Fant IV is a Software Engineer at Amazon.com. He has been working as a Web Developer for the last 10 years. Currently he is diving into performance and other technologies around JavaScript.
Current Projects
Currently I am working on test for JSPerf and what it means for Javascript in General. Many things we think we know to be true, may in the end be incorrect. Do this, not that!
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Category Archives: Performance
Parallel Downloading HTML Assets
Question: Image - inline Script - image, are the images parallel? Souders just posted the following tweet. Someone out in #webperf land should test how inline scripts block downloads - eg, image - inline script - image - are the images parallel? So here is my response to the question...
$(“#ID”) is fast enough
We all know that the fastest selector to use is the ID. Something like $("#id") is better than using a class. However, after looking at the last test we did on The Great Assumption - JavaScript I noticed a large discrepancy in $("#ID") versus the native document.getElementById(). Now, I always assumed it was slower, but [...]
The Great Assumption – Javascript
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting down with a Google Frontend Engineer friend of mine, talking about some of the JavaScript best practices we all have come to know and abide by. I found myself in agreement with 90% of everything we were talking about. However, something kept eating at me. Why do [...]
JavaScript Performance Testing – An Indispensable Tool
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have been looking into various tools to test Javascript Pefromance. I needed a way to test various JavaScript code snippets to see the overall latency/run time of each. I started looking for a way to manage the tests and be able to reference them in [...]