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romgrk is a personal blog at romgrk.com about programming and web. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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Why HN links it

The linked post appears to concern a JavaScript structs proposal. The one comment discusses fixed-layout objects, hidden-class shapes, and monomorphic code in JS engines, and does not discuss the writing.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-03-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. meheleventyone · 2024-10-11
    3D renderers have existed in JS for ages so that seems more like a failure of imagination on your part. The nice thing about fixed layout structs is that it leans in to optimizations people are already doing based on the behavior of JS engines where 'shapes' of objects are important and properties can be looked up by offset if you keep your code monomorphic. It can be a bit of a headache to enforce this and you can…

    Comment linking /posts/optimizing-javascript

    on “Proposal: JavaScript Structs”
  2. throw21111972 · 2024-06-27

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. bubblehack3r · 2024-03-22

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 10 points

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  4. romgrk · 2024-03-21

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. janpot · 2024-03-23

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 4 points

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  6. smitec · 2024-10-19

    Submitted Efficient TypeScript as a story · 3 points

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  7. plurby · 2024-06-17

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 2 points

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  8. kuba-orlik · 2024-04-03

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 2 points

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  9. tbassetto · 2024-03-27

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. brandrick · 2024-03-26

    Submitted Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit as a story · 1 points

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