Re: Allow to return same NodeList object for queries like getElementsByTagName, getElementsByClassName and getElementsByName

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:11:40 +0100, Anton Muhin <antonm@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to allow caching for those cases?  Firefox caches those
>> node lists for a long time (Maciej found the related bug
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140758).  IE8 caches as
>> well.   Opera, Safari and Chrome do not.
>
> Sorry for the somewhat late reply. We'd prefer not to change the
> specification here and keep the requirement. We're afraid of potential hard
> to detect incompatibility bugs if you sometimes cache and sometimes don't.
> We're also not convinced that you cannot get the performance win by other
> means.

I see.  One argument against potential bugs is both IE and FF do that,
so I won't expect lots of people relying on this behaviour anyway.

Regarding performance: if the spec mandates creation of new objects,
that's something which is difficult to optimize away.

thanks and yours,
anton.

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Received on Friday, 12 February 2010 11:32:18 UTC