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Comment · 13 years ago
This isn't SurfaceReviews.com
Comment · 13 years ago
Seriously?
Comment · 13 years ago
And it's not cheap, $35..
Comment · 13 years ago
Java is slow. It's going nowhere fast. LLVM on the other hand...
Comment · 13 years ago
You need a bookmarklet.
Comment · 13 years ago
Amazon has always seemed to me to offer the best support of any industry. They truly are honorary when it comes to customer treatment
Comment · 13 years ago
You're such a brave white knight aren't you.
Comment · 13 years ago
You forget you're on HN where slow ass designer languages are all the hail. Sigh..
Comment · 13 years ago
Ruby on Rails and your single-origin latte is calling. C is the most performant for years now, a large part of the kernel is in assembly. Remember to download your gems tonight, rude boy.
Comment · 13 years ago
I see, makes sense - it is easy to multiply big nums together but insane to factor the bignums out of them. You explained it more succinctly than I've ever understood it, thanks a ton!
Comment · 13 years ago
No shit, you don't have time to do what you want when you're strapped for cash. What's new aristocat?
Comment · 13 years ago
Couldn't a cross-comparison be used, encrypting different known blocks and observing certain key properties? I would imagine that any kind of reversible operation would be able to be deduced if it can be applied to specific data that reveals its true form/operation.
Comment · 13 years ago
This pattern is egregious and shows a lack of knowledge of the architecture and language.

All these private methods are going to be duplicated for every object created. The whole point of the 'this' magic in javascript is to allow the same function, ie. the same memory usage, to be used with 1000s of objects with no hit. Here, you're going to get unique functions, extra memory, for just having the 'this' operator substituted by a variable named _elem. This code is fundamentally flawed and I severely suggest to never use closures for shared object methods when instead a shared method that is bound using '.bind' will ensure much better performance and memory usage.

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