alt Hacker NewsYou'd be surprised how expensive it is to render text, although unless your page is very large you won't see it being slow on modern systems.
You'd be surprised how expensive it is to render text, although unless your page is very large you won't see it being slow on modern systems.
I'm more surprised how cheap it is in browsers because I know it's not that easy - they are really really good at it. Pure text rendering is therefore rarely an issue.