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Re: Importing multiple .js files

From Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Importing multiple .js files
Organization Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
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Date 2013-10-27 01:27 +0200
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

> Eric Bednarz wrote:

>> 2) Loading a really large file is usually much less efficient than
>> loading several smaller files dynamically in parallel in most (more or
>> less) contemporary browsers. This might depend on the precise values of
>> 'several' and 'contemporary', of course.
>
> How did you get that idea?  You are also not considering that the number of 
> parallel HTTP requests is limited,

... to an average of 6 to 8 requests per hostname, these days. We were
talking about less than ten scripts. Map that to 'usually'.

> not only by HTTP/1.1 definitions,

But also by gut feeling. You're right, I didn't consider.

> and that even if parallel download is possible, parallel parsing is
> not.

As you would say, this is a fallacious argument. If you load /n/ scripts
in parallel in a non-blocking way and parse them sequentially, that's
usually faster because:

- one script can be parsed while another one downloads
- meanwhile, the DOM can be parsed, too

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Importing multiple .js files "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 03:09 -0700
  Re: Importing multiple .js files Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 13:06 +0200
    Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-25 22:18 +0200
      Re: Importing multiple .js files "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-10-26 00:05 +0300
        Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-25 23:54 +0200
          Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-27 14:05 +0000
            Re: Importing multiple .js files Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-27 17:05 +0100
              Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-28 15:40 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-10-28 15:49 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-29 16:29 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-10-29 20:41 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-31 09:31 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-10-31 13:30 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-29 22:13 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-30 00:50 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-31 15:52 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 17:19 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-01 15:27 +0000
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-31 18:34 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-10-31 20:36 +0200
                FAQ discussion (was: Importing multiple .js files) Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-31 20:33 +0100
                Re: FAQ discussion Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-06 12:20 +0100
                Re: FAQ discussion Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-06 14:33 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-01 15:12 +0000
                "javascript" (was: Importing multiple .js files) Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-04 18:36 +0100
                Re: "javascript" (was: Importing multiple .js files) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-05 02:41 +0100
    Re: Importing multiple .js files Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-10-27 00:30 +0200
      Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-27 00:58 +0200
        Re: Importing multiple .js files Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-10-27 01:27 +0200
          Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-27 02:37 +0200
            Re: Importing multiple .js files Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-10-27 09:49 +0100
              Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-27 15:38 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-10-27 16:11 +0100
                Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-27 20:16 +0100
      Re: Importing multiple .js files Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 02:01 +0100
        Re: Importing multiple .js files danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2013-10-27 11:30 +0100
  Re: Importing multiple .js files nappysoft <nappysoft@gmail.com> - 2013-11-21 05:53 -0800
    Re: Importing multiple .js files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-21 16:15 +0100

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