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"Working with the theory that large string manipulation was the problem with the last approach, we switched from using Ajax to instead fetching the data using a dynamically generated script tag. This means that the contact data was never treated as string, and was instead executed as soon as it was downloaded, just like any other JavaScript file. The difference in performance was shocking: 89ms to parse 10,000 contacts (a reduction of 3 orders of magnitude), while the smallest case of 172 contacts only took 6ms. The parse time per contact actually decreased the larger the list became. [emphasis added]"
Code: Flickr Developer Blog ยป Building Fast Client-side Searches. Wow.
