title: Performance tuning a knockout application - guidelines for improving response times
body: <p>I have a large, complex page that relies heavily on knockout.js. Performance is starting to become an issue but examining the call stack and trying to find the bottlenecks is a real challenge. </p>
  
  <p>I noticed in another question ( <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9916843/knockout-js-understanding-foreach-and-with">Knockout.js -- understanding foreach and with</a> ) that the accepted answer has the comment:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>...and I suggest not using <code>with</code> where high performance is necessary
    because of the overhead...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Assuming the statement is true, this is really useful stuff to know and I have not found a source for such performance tips.</p>
  
  <p>Therefore, my question is: </p>
  
  <p><strong>Are there general guidelines / top tips that I can apply to help the performance of my application before I get deep into classic performance tuning.</strong></p>