Hi, in implementing the following JavaScript pattern ...

function doSomething (callbackFn [, additional arguments]) {
    // Initialize a few things here...
    (function () {
        // Do a little bit of work here...
        if (termination condition) {
            // We are done
            callbackFn();
        } else {
            // Process next chunk
            setTimeout(arguments.callee, 0);
        }
    })();

... over a large dataset (> 5MB), there is a huge performance
difference between Chrome and the other browsers. I know V8 is
generally faster than the other engines, but I'm curious why it's so
much faster for this particular pattern?

For a detailed explanation of what I was doing, you can read the
following post on my blog --

http://www.arbingersys.com/2010/06/im-believer-chrome-javascript-fast...

I'd love to understand this better. Thanks, James

Read this post for more details:
http://www.belshe.com/2010/06/04/chrome-cranking-up-the-clock/

Most of the time delta is almost certainly due to Chrome's setTimeout
implementation.  The amount of work you do inside the loop would be affected
by the JS engine and that probably explains most of the extra time that IE8
is taking over firefox.

Erik

<http://www.belshe.com/2010/06/04/chrome-cranking-up-the-clock/>

Thanks for the link. Excellent article. James

On Jun 25, 1:29 pm, Erik Kay <erik...@chromium.org> wrote:

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