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WAT? I see Safari being substantially slower on pretty much every benchmark I throw at it. Unless you:re on iOS where Apple bans competing browers
by greggman2 7y ago
WAT? I see Safari being substantially slower on pretty much every benchmark I throw at it.
Unless you:re on iOS where Apple bans competing browers
- saagarjha 7y agoNo, I'm talking about macOS. Instead of linking to webkit.org's results, I'll provide a relatively recently run by someone on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361888
- millstone 7y agoAn under-appreciated fact is that JavaScriptCore is really really fast, and often outperforms v8 on benchmarks.
- pohl 7y agoDo you consider efficient use of battery to be a dimension of “performance”? I do.
- Frondo 7y agoSafari's impact on battery life is amazing, and the main reason it's also my daily driver. I work a lot off of battery, and while Firefox recently got a lot better, it's still hard to trade a few hours of work time. and yes, even on my five years old air, I can get five hours of work in using safari, only three with Firefox.