On 8/13/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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If there is in fact a performance decrease
in more extreme but not ridiculous cases, then of course it should be
fixed even if the result is a bit ugly.
Not doing anything on this front doesn't bother me.
I've been able to create a noticeable performance reduction of the
anchor scanning approach but only in a contrived test case. Then again
I am testing on fairly fast client hardware.
I will, however, be calling on your defense should someone reject some
nifty tool in the basis that scanning anchor tags might theoretically
be slow. ;)
(Iteration through DOM objects matching classes was cited as a
performance concern for the DIV order randomization hack I made for
boardvote on meta.)