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> Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want? No, it still packages two different runtime env
by LeoNatan25 8y ago
> Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want?
No, it still packages two different runtime environments, one of which is a browser, which, in turn, is basically an OS.
- MBCook 8y agoI know it’s not going to be native speed. Every. But I thought maybe it was 10% faster or something due to an updated JS engine. (Just a guess at a possible feature, not meant to be true)
- Ajedi32 8y agoWell, they updated to a new version of V8. So that's about 8 months worth of JS optimizations and new language features right there. The change log doesn't really do a good job of highlighting that though, it just says "Upgraded from v8 6.1.534.41 to 6.6.346.32."
- MBCook 8y agoI figured it would include the latest version, but 6.1 to 6.6 is meaningless numbers to me. In a list of this style it makes sense, I just wish this was an announcement that said ‘we changed/added X, Y, and Z. V8 has been updated to a version with a faster GC. MacOS looks more native. And (other cool change)”. Just a little paragraph like that would be great.