KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

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Featuring:

• Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:

Glimmer

The performance costs of parse/compile:

Precompilation:

Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:

A11Y:

Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc

Ember

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