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This is quite mean. There is nothing wrong with doing both this and cutting down on bloat.
by abritinthebay 9y ago
This is quite mean.
There is nothing wrong with doing both this and cutting down on bloat.
- chrismorgan 9y agoThere’s nothing wrong with it, but it won’t happen. If no one had ever cared about performance in browser engines, we wouldn’t have the problem of massive pages that we have now. Things like Facebook would have to be more efficient about how they do things. By making loading faster, you reduce the incentive for them to reduce their own bloat. Of course, on the other hand, if browsers were still slow, there are various things that people can do now which they wouldn’t have bothered with before. A vector graphics engine or sound engine, for example, would have been impossible with the browser functionality of now but the performance of ten years ago, because they would have been unbearably slow. You win some, you lose some. Mostly you just end up with an unhappy balance that keeps no one really happy.
- abritinthebay 9y agoI agree it won’t happen but that doesn’t make the original comment any better.