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> Google has a lot more incentive than Apple to make the fastest engine What are those incentives? I see no incentive for Google to make something fast.
by lionkor 10mo ago
> Google has a lot more incentive than Apple to make the fastest engine
What are those incentives? I see no incentive for Google to make something fast.
- charcircuit 10mo agoFaster page load times increases engagement with the web. More engagement on the web leads to more engagement with Google's ads.
- lionkor 10mo agoI don't agree. Page load times do not matter when everything is so locked down that most people don't even know there's an alternative.
- aurareturn 10mo agoBut this was always true. True for last 40 years. What’s changed in 2026 that will motivate Google to overtake JSCore?
- gurgunday 10mo agoA significant part of Google’s business (Ads, YouTube, Workspace) runs inside a browser, so if the web is slow, Google loses money
- Octoth0rpe 10mo agoAnd the faster that a page finishes rendering on an iphone, the faster that the cpu can idle, which hugely benefits battery life. That's a pretty strong motivation on Apple's side. I don't think the proposed motivation on google's side is stronger.
- johannes1234321 10mo agoWhat are the marginal gains in business for them from the likely improvement of the runtime? It's not like the web (or: web-technology-based apps) don't capture a lot of time already.