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JavaScript Audio is Finally Fast Enough (Mostly)

Remember when “Audio in the Browser” meant a <bgsound> tag playing a MIDI file of “The Girl from Ipanema”? Those days are gone. Now we have Web Audio API. It’s C++ performance with JavaScript syntax. Well, almost. You still have to deal with the Garbage Collector. The GC is the enemy of the Groove.

Fight the GC

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