# Javascript

### Creating UMD Module from Emscripten using CMake

By default, Emscripten creates a module which can be used from both Node.JS and the browser, but it has the following issues: The module pollutes the global namespace The module is created with the name Module (in my case, I require streamingPercentiles) The module cannot be loaded by some module loaders such as require.js While the above issues can (mostly) be corrected by using –s MODULARIZE=1, it changes the semantics of the resulting JavaScript file, as the module now returns a function rather than an object.

### Calculating Percentiles on Streaming Data Part 7: Cormode-Korn-Muthukrishnan-Srivastava

This is part 7 of my series on calculating percentiles on streaming data. In 2005, Graham Cormode, Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, and Divesh Srivastava published a paper called Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles over Data Streams [CKMS05]. This paper took the Greenwald-Khanna algorithm [GK01] and made the following notable changes: Generalized the algorithm to work with arbitrary targeted quantiles, where a targeted quantile is a combination of a quantile $\phi$ and a maximum allowable error $\epsilon$.