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Web browsing certainly benefits in almost every phone. There are loads of pages that will crush old phones now. You won't see HN perform better, but sites that
by zip1234 8y ago
Web browsing certainly benefits in almost every phone. There are loads of pages that will crush old phones now. You won't see HN perform better, but sites that are loaded with cruft and ads will render smoother. Another benefit of faster/more efficient processors is battery life.
- photojosh 8y agoNotably, the A12 added a specific CPU numeric instruction that is aimed directly at Javascript. But apparently it's not even being used yet, and the phones still beat desktop machines at JS benchmarks. [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascript https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascr...