There's only one way to make a tiny page that loads super fast - and that's to make every single decision with an eye towards efficiency.
People who say "hey, what's an extra 30KB for one library? It's only like 10x larger" will tend to reach a similar conclusion at every decision point. And that's why the internet is full of massive, bloated, slow web pages. Single decisions don't cause bloat. Bloat comes from a slack attitude towards efficiency.
I'm not saying this project is an important breakthrough, but I definitely applaud the effort. I've always been surprised at the large size of jquery. I'd love to see a benchmark for runtime performance, including a comparison of parsing time and a benchmark of common operations.
People who say "hey, what's an extra 30KB for one library? It's only like 10x larger" will tend to reach a similar conclusion at every decision point. And that's why the internet is full of massive, bloated, slow web pages. Single decisions don't cause bloat. Bloat comes from a slack attitude towards efficiency.
I'm not saying this project is an important breakthrough, but I definitely applaud the effort. I've always been surprised at the large size of jquery. I'd love to see a benchmark for runtime performance, including a comparison of parsing time and a benchmark of common operations.