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JS-heavy sites are night-and-day faster on iOS, thanks primarily to faster CPUs (which is mostly due to better L2/L3 caches). The iPhone X has 8MB of L2 cache;
by dfabulich 9y ago
JS-heavy sites are night-and-day faster on iOS, thanks primarily to faster CPUs (which is mostly due to better L2/L3 caches). The iPhone X has 8MB of L2 cache; your sub $200 phone likely has no L2 at all. Even high end Android phones have, at most, 1MB of L2 cache. This shows up pretty clearly in Speedometer scores.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks
- andrewmcwatters 9y agoAs devices get faster, developers use more compute budget, leaving other devices in the dust. Developers write code against high-end devices.
- walterbell 9y agoNot if their site needs a large audience, e.g. ecommerce.
- ghettoimp 9y agoYou would think so. But man, even sites like newegg and amazon would drag terribly on my old phone. And many news sites were sooo painful with all their ads.
- PacketPaul 9y agoCan you post a few links of websites that are painfully slow on low end machines? I would like to test with my Son’s $64 Android vs my iPhone X.
- always_good 9y agoTry browsing the web on your son's phone at all. You'll find that just about every website is slower to begin with.
- pier25 9y agoYou are not wrong, but that's like arguing that a Porsche is the only way to drive.
- olegkikin 9y agoWhich websites are you talking about? I'm yet to encounter any important ones that are really slow.
- orf 9y agoMy semi-budget android phone has 1.5mb of L2 cache.