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Probably not worth it to add dedicated cores for web processing, but iPhone already takes advantage of special ARM instructions for faster JavaScript execution
by quells 6y ago
Probably not worth it to add dedicated cores for web processing, but iPhone already takes advantage of special ARM instructions for faster JavaScript execution [0]. That will almost certain be used on the new ARM Macs.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163433
- ksec 6y agoThat is not true. As it turns out, Safari didn't use that instruction [1] at the time and even when it did. 99% of those performance gain in Speedometer had nothing to do what that instruction . [1] https://twitter.com/saambarati/status/1049202132522479616?s=20 https://twitter.com/saambarati/status/1049202132522479616?s=...
- quells 6y agoAh, thanks for the correction. I had not seen the follow up since that was originally posted.
- ksec 6y agoI guess not really your fault. We have KOLs that put out information on their site and channels ( in this case DaringFireball and Twitter ) and they, for whatever reason never really correct themselves. ( Even when they knew they were wrong )