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by moenig 2078 days ago
The memory-footprint and performance improvements basically boil down to a departure from pre-rendering and caching all the graphics to redrawing them just in time. We were delighted to find out that rerendering complex graphical shapes in modern browsers can be done faster and with less memory penalty than pre-rendering and caching.

Here's part of a presentation I drew up earlier this year with a few slides outlining the architectural changes:

https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/uploads/short-url/a5eBP71x50...

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Regarding the link:

> Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.

Ah, here's a link to the Morphic2 architectural changes that should work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QD-tqtTL3ldtmtqmViNm-C7TW0n...