None of the compression methods you just listed will ever change. They are static, well defined, so making custom silicon to speed them up makes sense. Javascri

None of the compression methods you just listed will ever change. They are static, well defined, so making custom silicon to speed them up makes sense. Javascript is a massive mess of ever changing spaghetti (useful, delicious spaghetti, but still spaghetti), so custom silicon for it does not make sense.