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Runtime Performance

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The last chapter explored ways to optimize web performance with JavaScript. You learned several ways to avoid having external JavaScript block the parsing of the rest of the page. We looked at the async attribute, which is new to HTML 5, and at drawing script tags with JavaScript.

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Barker, T. (2012). Runtime Performance. In: Pro JavaScript Performance. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4750-0_7

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