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Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend

August 31, 2018 52:43 76.18 MB Downloads: 0

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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Notes and Links

Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:

Glimmer

The performance costs of parse/compile:

Precompilation:

Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:

A11Y:

Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc

Ember

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