- From: Glen Huang <curvedmark@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:58:59 +0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Wow, it's now super clear. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Just a quick follow up question to quench my curiosity: if I do "list[1]" and no one has ever asked the list for any element, Gecko will find the first two matching elements, and store them in the list, if I then immediately do "list[0]", the first element is returned without walking the DOM (assuming there are at least two matching elements)?
> querySelector("foo") and getElementsByTagName("foo")[0] can return different nodes
Still a bit confused regarding this. If the premise is the selector only contains characters allowed in a tag name, how can they return different nodes, maybe I missed something? Unless you mean querySelector(":foo") and getElementsByTagName(":foo")[0] can return different results, which is obvious.
If by parsing the passed selector (or lookup the cached parsed selectors) you know it only contains a tag name, why it is a bit harder to optimize? You just look up the (tagname, root) hash table, no?
> In practice this hasn't come up as a bottleneck in anything we've profiled so far
I'm probably prematurely optimizing my code. But nevertheless learned something quite valuable by asking. Thanks for answering it. :)
Received on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 05:59:32 UTC