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on Feb 14, 2008
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Nine Javascript Gotchas
Of course it's faster to use a precomputed reference than to find an element in the DOM. I can't see the "overhead" of manually storing a reference to a DOM element in a variable ever mattering in any application. Grab it once and you're done.
eusman
on Feb 15, 2008
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the only sure thing is that the whole javascript perfomance/memory footprint/cross-browser/degrade challenge can drive someone crazy!
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