What are the limits to pushing JavaScript performance?

Question

I have been building a prototype page over the past few months that uses a lot of SVG and has a lot of elements in general. There is also a ton of data being processed both

Answer 1

There are no limits that are written in stone.

What can be done on my computer versus the machine I look up recipes on versus my 4 year olds netbook will differ. Memory, speed, etc depends on the browser, cpu, ram, and what else is running on the machine. I bet you run your code on some other platforms and it will freeze and you would have to do the 3 finger salute to kill the process.

• Do smart event handling, detect clicks at lower levels, not on every element.
• Push as much as you can on the server for intensive processing.
• Optimize code, make sure you are not updating the screen on every iteration of a loop.
• Combine/minimize http requests when possible.