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youngtaff
on Feb 13, 2013
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WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
I think Wikipedia removed jQuery due to the impact it had on battery life - see Who Killed My Battery (
http://www2012.wwwconference.org/proceedings/proceedings/p41...
) for some details.
oinksoft
on Feb 13, 2013
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People on comp.lang.javascript (which has its problems, and I've been away for a while) have been noting this for a while. jQuery chews far more cycles than comparable libraries with its function overloading, extra $(this) invocations and such.
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