Re: Virtualizing and batching DOM operations in Gaia

2014-01-16 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 1/16/14 7:15 AM, Sergi Mansilla wrote: I still think that automatically batching the changes that DOM operations cause at the end of the event loop This is already basically done in Gecko, no? Unless you explicitly flush out layout or style, we don't actually update them when the DOM mut

Virtualizing and batching DOM operations in Gaia

2014-01-16 Thread Sergi Mansilla
Hi there, My apologies in case this topic has already been discussed before. It is well known that one of the biggest bottlenecks in web application performance are DOM operations. While the recommendation to developers is to try to not update the DOM and trigger reflows if it is not completel