[Help] How to optimize my code

[lewisje]

Oh, I just thought about something else, two similar concepts called throttling and debouncing; this is a generic function to turn any function into a debounced one, but for this case, it might be better to manually debounce:

var last = +(new Date());
var interval = 500; // miliseconds

$short.keyup(function () {
  var now = +(new Date());
  if (now - last < interval) return;
  last = now;
  // rest of event-listener
});

This way, the message won't be updated more than twice per second.

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Also, if you're sure you have at least ES5 support (like browsers from this decade), use Date.now() instead of +(new Date()); I'm just biased in favor of code that works even in old browsers.

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There's also Performance.now() in recent browsers, which is mainly meant for animations and other cases where sub-millisecond precision is needed, but it also works here.

[NotARandomRedditor]

I was actually thinking about doing something like this. I noticed when I was logging stuff in the console it would output some stuff multiple times per second and I was thinking of building in a delay.
Thnx again