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mathiasbynens
benchmark.js
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mathiasbynens / benchmark.js

benchmark.js

A benchmarking library. As used on jsPerf.com.

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1GitHub stars
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What it is

A benchmarking library. As used on jsPerf.com.

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Observed mentions: 2010-12-31 08:57:42 UTC to 2011-02-03 21:20:57 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 272011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 102011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJan 31

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Dec 272010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 32011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 102011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 172011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 242011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 312011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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If you mean to run this benchmark across different browsers, you should know there might be some problems with the time measurement technique you’re using. Read http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/bulletproof-javascript-b... for a detailed explanation. Why not use Benchmark.js https://github.com/mathiasbynens/benchmark.js for your test case? This library will take care of all the issues mentioned in the article I linked to. Or just take the easy road and use http://jsperf.com/ which uses Benchmark.js behind the scenes :)
In I benchmarked 8 different ways of representing a 2d grid in JavaScript

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