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		warfangle on June 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of nat... You probably would have been better off with typed arrays and fragment shaders, if you were going for performance.

k__ on June 24, 2014 [–]

Aren't the arrays produced by a canvas object typed?

warfangle on June 25, 2014 | [–]

Yep, but they only become performant when you treat them as such instead of doing naive e.g. multiplication. See: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/faster-canvas-pixel-manipu...

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