Announcing a v8-Natives v0.0.1

What are v8-natives, you might ask?     Well, they are the mostly undocumented javascript commands that control the v8 engine in Google Chrome, Opera and Joyent Node.js.      Some of the commands are %CollectGarbage(), %GetV8Version(), %GetOptimizationStatus() which ties with my other favorite of %OptimizeFunctionOnNextCall()   What can I do with them? You can tell the engine to… Continue reading Announcing a v8-Natives v0.0.1

Node & Browser Javascript Compression Update

I wrote a post on Data Compression back in October, http://fluentreports.com/blog/?p=18, discussing how I sped up a Data Compression Library that we have been using internally for all web socket traffic and how by combing techniques from different comparable libraries LZJBn.js was born. Well fast forward several months --- I ran across another library that… Continue reading Node & Browser Javascript Compression Update

Transforming JavaScript JSON

Colt McAnlis posted a very interesting blog post (http://mainroach.blogspot.com/2013/08/json-compression-transpose-binary.html) this evening on using Transposing to reduce the JSON data size; his post was right on the money. We have been using a similar technique for a couple years now.  (Although, we use a different compression method over websocket as gzip is too expensive in pure… Continue reading Transforming JavaScript JSON