This document discusses techniques for improving JavaScript performance, including:
- Using for loops instead of foreach loops for improved speed when iterating over arrays
- Memoization to cache function results and avoid repeated computations
- Lazy evaluation with libraries like underscore.js to defer computation until results are needed
- Parallelization using functional programming techniques like liftA3 to run operations concurrently
- Compile-time optimizations like loop fusion that rearrange code to reduce operations
The document emphasizes that functional programming allows optimizations like these through composability and avoiding side effects.