[HN Gopher] JSBen.ch - Performance benchmarking playground for J...
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       JSBen.ch - Performance benchmarking playground for JavaScript
        
       Author : andrei-akopian
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-07-12 02:18 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (jsben.ch)
 (TXT) w3m dump (jsben.ch)
        
       | refactorguy wrote:
       | Happy to see it return. Are all the benchmarks back? It would be
       | nice if all those links from Stack Overflow work again.
        
         | Bengalilol wrote:
         | Almost ... That's an old link : https://jsben.ch/#/BQhED If you
         | get rid of the #/ it seems to work https://jsben.ch/BQhED
        
           | johtso wrote:
           | Maybe those links could be updated in some automated way?
        
             | jefozabuss wrote:
             | they could add a url redirect on the client side if they
             | match the old hash routed url
        
             | Bengalilol wrote:
             | It would be quite easy. I sent a message to the creator,
             | hopefully he'll implement that for you and everyone ^^
        
       | edf13 wrote:
       | Guessing the benchmark results are for number of runs? Over what
       | time period?
        
         | lionkor wrote:
         | Just post your code into ChatGPT and ask it to generate a
         | benchmark /s
        
           | n_plus_1_acc wrote:
           | Seems a little complicated, you can just ask for bechmark
           | results.
        
       | llagerlof wrote:
       | Sometimes got stuck on 0% rocket screen. Don't know why.
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       | edit: It's when the code throw some error. The user should
       | receive an alert.
        
       | andrei-akopian wrote:
       | The website has no about page or any other links. I am not the
       | dev and I don't know who the dev is. I found the site yesterday
       | on Stackoverflow.
        
         | lelandfe wrote:
         | Seems to be a German chap:
         | https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/58tlmv/created_...
        
       | the_arun wrote:
       | Do we have any browser extension to run this on a specific
       | webpage & suggest code blocks with potentially bad patterns from
       | a Performance standpoint?
        
         | andrei-akopian wrote:
         | Modern computers are very fast, it is hard to push them to the
         | limits using just JavaScript. 99% of performance based
         | decisions are premature optimization. Few operations are so
         | complex and have to be done in such large numbers that they
         | will take to long for the user.
         | 
         | Benchmarks are A/B tests. What you are talking about is called
         | a "profiler" and if you google "JavaScript Profiler" quite a
         | few will come up (including an extension).
         | 
         | Modern Browsers have a "Task Manager" in "three dots" > More
         | Tools > Task Manager.
         | 
         | I realized I don't know what the actual bottlenecks are on
         | websites. Background processes adding up across tabs I assume?
         | If someone knows please tell me/us.
        
       | vanderZwan wrote:
       | I'll stick to https://jsbenchit.org/. If it ever goes down I'll
       | still have all the code snippets in gist form, and a repo to
       | self-host locally.
        
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