Articles
Performance
Why interfaces get slow with real amounts of data, and what actually fixes it — measured, not guessed.
Every "X Is Faster Than Y" Benchmark Has Three Knobs You Did Not See
Same code, same machine, opposite conclusions. Warmup, dead-code elimination and input size each decide the winner — and benchmark posts almost never say where they set them.
A Naive Append Kills a Live Chart in Under a Minute
Appending each tick to a growing array looks fine for the first ten seconds. Measured at 3,000 ticks per second, it blows the frame budget at around 55 and goes superlinear after that.
Stop Comparing Chart Libraries. Compare Rendering Modes.
The gap between ECharts, Highcharts and Chart.js is usually under 2x. The gap between SVG and canvas is a different shape entirely — one grows with your data, the other does not.
Why Your Time-Series Chart Dies at 100,000 Points
The bottleneck is almost never the chart library. It is the number of draw calls you hand the browser, and there are three ways to cut it.