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task #12092: Forced Feature Degradation (for production)

Submitter:  Mike Gerwitz <mikegerwitz>
Submitted:  Sun 10 Jun 2012 12:43:40 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 26 Aug 2011 04:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Tue 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Core Priority:  6
Item Group:  Development Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  mikegerwitz
Percent Complete:  0% Open/Closed:  Open
Planned Release:  None
Keywords:  performance

Sun 10 Jun 2012 12:43:40 AM UTC, original submission:  

ease.js currently supports feature degradation to support older browsers that cannot take advantage of certain features. For example, to work on IE <= 8, ease.js drops visibility support, but otherwise functions exactly the same.

There's a benefit to this. Performance is increased. Many concepts of Object-Oriented development are very useful during development, but unnecessary during runtime. Visibility is one such concept, unless the runtime environment makes heavy use of external libraries (which would permit breaking encapsulation).

To gain an extra performance boost in production, permit a forced degradation.

In addition, we could also evaluate other features that may not be required in a production environment. For example, one should develop using ease.js in a development mode. This mode will perform necessary validations (e.g. keyword checking, ensuring we don't override non-virtual members, etc). In production, it should be assumed that all problems were caught during development. As such, we can skip keyword checks to further improve class declaration performance.

Care will need to be taken with 3rd-party libraries.

Mike Gerwitz <mikegerwitz>
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