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JSE - Optimising Again!
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20th July 2021
Got another nice increase in speed, this morning.
-=-=- I previously wrote a script that tested various methods to see which was quicker. One of the tests compared a single giant switch:case vs a series of smaller switch:cases, wrapped in a switch:case.. That is.. switch (1/100) { case 1 ... case 100 } vs switch (1/10) { case 1 switch (1/10) { case 1-1 ... case 1-10 } case 2 switch(1/10) { case 2-1 ... case 2-10 } } and so on.. Essentially breaking the giant switch into lots of little switches. My test script did a massive loop of these and timed which one turned out to be faster. I tested on all of the browsers I could, and found that one giant switch was ALWAYS faster than jumping through hoops and having multiple nested switches. So I DEFINITELY didn't go down that route, and instead kept one giant switch. This morning, I booted up my old Windows laptop and found it was still running the previous None-Chromium version of Edge, which is great, because that version has some lovely debug tools. I ran the site on that, and the first thing it flagged up was that the giant switch couldn't be optimised. hmmm.. So, I set about splitting it up, in exactly the way that I'd previously tested to be "the slower method", and gave it a try. Well, what do you know.. Lesson of the day : Don't trust your tests!! Views 100, Upvotes 16
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