I recently read about a developer event (Balkan Code Retreat) that tries to hone people's programming skills while building Conway's Game of Life again and again. Thought it would be interesting to see if I can do it myslef in JS.
The script was slow and simple but I tried to optimize it based on this article. Another optimization was removing all DOM manipulations and using a box-shadow + background pattern implementation to represent the stage, grid and all cells (inspired by bit-shadow machine). Now a computation for the whole stage take around 5ms.
Well ... JS is not the best environment for this but it's fun anyway :)
- Needs jQuery (included in
lib/); - May not work in IE or Opera;
NB! Running the game for a long time will heat up your CPU!