Subj : Slow string conversion of long js functions
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Adrian Klein <master@dragosan.net>
Date : Sat Jan 10 2004 09:20 pm

Hi all,

I occassionally found out that the conversion of javascript functions to 
their String value in general seems to be very slow and not to scale to 
well with the length of the function. I was just wondering if this could 
be a useful hint for a future optimization and where it should be posted 
if it should at all.

A Testsite, that performs the conversion of a relative long js function 
to its String value 10 times (took about 3500 ms on a PII 450 with Win98 
and Mozilla 1.5, whereas IE and Opera took only about 0 ms): 
http://www.dragosan.net/slow_string.html

.