Efficient Twitch Stream List Call

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Boosting performance are rarely worth the effort. You can get tiny improvements by not testing each name more than necessary:

if(name === "game") {
	$gname = value;
} else if (name === "channel") {
	$dname = value.display_name;
} else if(name === "viewers") {
	$viewers = value;
} else if(name === "preview") {
	$img = value.large;
}

And an even more microscopic boost by creating nodes programmatically through createElement and appendChild, according to this grossly simplified jsPerf: http://jsperf.com/jquery-vs-createelement

I can’t stress enough that unless you are making real-time applications where performance is everything, spending time increasing efficiency is a very inefficient use of your time.