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HTML5
HTML5 Canvas: Performance and Optimization. Part 2: Going Deeper
Last time when we were talking about JavaScript optimization, we used some basic optimization techniques to achieve better performance of Flood Fill algorithm on HTML5 Canvas. Today we’re going to go deeper. We discussed the results internally and came up with several low-level fixes. Here they go: Minimize the number of created objects First of […]
HTML5
HTML5 Canvas: Performance and Optimization
It’s no doubt that HTML5 is going to be the next big platform for software development. Some say it could even kill traditional operating systems and all applications in future will be written with HTML5 and JavaScript. Others say HTML5 apps will have their market share, but never replace native applications completely. One of the […]
Amazon
Amazon Glacier: Why and How Does It Work?
Recently Amazon announced Glacier – a new service in their AWS suite. It allows you to store large amounts of data very cheaply – just $0.01/Gb per month plus some expenses for traffic and API calls. It is incredible cheap price, compare it with S3: $0.125 /Gb for first Tb of data. But where is […]