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String Performance: Getting Good Performance from Internet Explorer

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In the last post on string performance, we did an analysis of string performance that spanned all of the major browsers, with the goal of optimizing the performance of the dojox.string.Builder. While we were able to create significant improvements in performance—particularly with Firefox—the performance under Internet Explorer was still pretty poor compared to native methods.

The goal for this article was to bring Builder’s performance down to comparable native operations—and we were able to do with through a combination of a slight change in code with using different ways of calling the append method.

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