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Thanos Polychronakis
Personal blog · thanpol.as · on HN as thanasispprogrammingweb
Thanos Polychronakis's personal blog at thanpol.as covers programming and web. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-29
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What? Why? I disagree on all of those points. Promises are inconsistent[0], slow[1], and I find them a hassle compared to async. The Node.js core and community convention is to use callbacks and callback-embracing tooling for a good reason. [0] http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/09/20/consistency-pr... [1] http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you...
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on “Contra – Asynchronous flow control with a functional taste to it”Submitted How make your web-app become available faster: Let go of the DOM Ready events as a story · 81 points
HN discussionPromises are great for prototyping, but have significant overhead ( http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you... ) for some high performance APIs it may be advisable to use async. Async also supports nodejs callback patterns which can reduce the need for wrappers (promisify)
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on “Async.js v2.0.0 released”Submitted Show HN: The Importance of Logging – Introducing Logality as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises/A+ Performance Hits You Should Be Aware Of as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to the TasteJS folks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mantri - a New Solution for JavaScript Dependency Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passing Data From Server To Javascript On Page Load as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Jumpstart Your Web Development Career as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Squashing. Or how to be a liar and ungrateful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cost of WebRTC Today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises/A performance hits you should be aware of as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting what a JS Modular Application is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development Using Namespaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted [JS] Why I Don't Like AMD And What I Will Do About It as a story · 1 points
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