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Current browser research suggests you don’t need JIT, as evidenced by the ability to disable it on iOS. Wonder how close you could get to “great” performance wi
by easton 4y ago
Current browser research suggests you don’t need JIT, as evidenced by the ability to disable it on iOS. Wonder how close you could get to “great” performance with a Firefox port without JIT.
- varenc 4y agoIn my experience, disabling the JIT on iOS (via Lockdown mode) results in slow performance and greatly increased battery drain on JS heavy websites and web views. The battery drain being the worst part. But of course with a site like HN there’s no noticeable difference.
- MBCook 4y agoIf Google were allowed to publish Chrome, not based on Safari, but without a JIT tomorrow I think they’d get review bombed by normal users complaining about how it suddenly got slower than the current WebKit implementation. It’s mostly developers who care about the engine, end users are going to care far more about the performance.