To connect you to information in real time, it’s important for Twitter to be fast. That’s why we’ve been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. When we shipped #NewTwitt......
BinaryJS is a lightweight framework that utilizes websockets to send, stream, and pipe binary data bidirectionally between browser javascript and Node.js.
canvg is a SVG parser and renderer. It takes a URL to a SVG file or the text of an SVG file, parses it in JavaScript, and renders the result on a Canvas element. The rendering speed of the examples is about as fast as native SVG.