[thelist] Custom objects and performance in JavaScript
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 08:23:57 CST 2005
On 11/14/05, Tom Dell'Aringa <pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote:
> var stateData = {
> 'colorado_image' : 'image.html',
> 'colorado_desc' : 'description.xml',
> 'scene2_image' : 'image2.html',
> 'scene2_desc' : 'description2.xml',
> 'scene3_image' : 'image3.html',
> 'scene3_desc' : 'description3.xml' };
>
> Is there a performance benefit/hit in using the object or is there basically no difference? If the
> data begins to grow to say 50-100 objects, what about then?
Object properties in JavaScript are implemented as hashes, anyway.
Additionally, even arrays are objects.
So, no, there's no difference.
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Matt Warden
Miami University
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