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Chrome performance increased roughly 80% between 2014 and 2017: https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/how-chrome-became-highest-scoring.html https://blog.chromium.o
by wonnage 4y ago
Chrome performance increased roughly 80% between 2014 and 2017: https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/how-chrome-became-highest-scoring.html https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/how-chrome-became-highest-...
It was then roughly flat through 2020 despite slowdowns from Spectre mitigations.
Pretty much all the “bloat” you’re probably complaining about happened in this 6 year span - flexbox, grid, CSS animations, ES2015+, etc. and the browser got faster.
- gmueckl 4y agoIsn't most of that improvement actually caused by a CPU switch on the benchmarking hardware? That would invalidate the benchmark pretty thoroughly.
- wonnage 4y agoThe 80% improvement is on the original Intel chip
- revelio 4y agoBasically all the named optimisations are to JavaScript execution time not HTML processing, and from reading the details many of them came by trading off memory for runtime speed.