[02:45:14 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> hey thealphanerd, you still awake?
[02:45:20 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> hey colinclark
[02:45:21 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> !!!
[02:45:30 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> what's the good word?
[02:45:44 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Not much. I'm in Stuttgart at the moment
[02:45:47 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> How are things with you?
[02:45:49 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> btw did you hear that the square root of minus one is a number now… wtf!
[02:46:11 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> what are you doing in germany?
[02:46:12 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> 
[02:46:37 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Meetings for the GPII project
[02:46:54 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> cooool.. sidebar… https://github.com/felixge/faster-than-c this made me think of you
[03:23:58 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> These two bits of advice seem quite consistent with the JS performance benchmarks we track...
[03:24:05 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> big switch statement = bad; function calls = very cheap
[03:24:11 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Conditionals are costly
[03:24:16 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> closures can be costly, by nature
[03:24:30 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> but function calls used to be a major cost in JavaScript, five years ago
[03:24:33 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> no longer so much the case
[03:31:31 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> interesting...
[03:32:07 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> btw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208437
[03:32:16 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> " Properly using prototypes and "this" is the only way to do high-performance JavaScript with objects.
[03:32:16 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> Get cozy with them – they're useful."
[03:39:21 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I'm not convinced that's actually true
[03:39:36 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> though at any given point in time, it might be
[03:40:24 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> There was a recent article about this that I read
[03:40:43 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> and it was clear that V8 was currently under-optimizing closure-based objects
[03:43:46 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> I think I need to become a bit more intimate with how js works
[03:43:53 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> what exactly is the deal with v8?
[10:55:07 CDT(-0500)] <alexn> michelled: if you have a minute today could you take a look into one of my OER Commons branches. https://github.com/anvk/OER-Commons/compare/ISKME:staging...OER-793 Andrey fixed the staging branch so I managed to update my branch with the latest staging and test it locally.
[11:10:01 CDT(-0500)] <michelled> sure alexn
[13:03:36 CDT(-0500)] <thealphanerd> hey all! So is anyone coming next weekend to mountain view for the GSOC mentor summit?
[13:45:31 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> WOW YAY YAY!!! CONFLUENCE HAS BEEN UPGRADED!!!
[13:45:41 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Thanks so much, AVTAR
[13:45:52 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> It now has an EDIT BUTTON
[13:46:05 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> I've only been waiting for this since 2007
[14:43:58 CDT(-0500)] <jhung> Cindyli and justin_o: I working on the design for dewarp and added some functionality which will likely affect the server design.
[14:44:18 CDT(-0500)] <cindyli> jhung: let's chat