Speed Of SessionStorage

I am making a website where the user can select options on an item such as size or colour. However, I am using Backbone and when the model is updated the view is re-rendered and op

Solution 1:

This jsperf test should reassure you https://jsperf.com/localstorage-vs-objects/47

As you can see, looking up in the sessionStorage (or the localStorage for that matter) is a lot slower that looking up in an object.

But, that said, you can do more than 2,000,000 (on my firefox on my computer) of those operations per second. So don't worry about this your users are never going to feel that latency :)