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sushi

RTFA

that new GPU acceleration advances in the upcoming version 7 are achieving speeds 60 times faster than in version 6

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That still doesn't explain what is faster, only how it's faster.

Based on the GPU acceleration bit, I'd assume it's page rendering though.

"rapid advances in Chrome's 2D graphics performance"

I'd assume it's the 2D graphics performance.

A very specific subset of 2d graphics performance it seems: 2d animation using certain kinds of transforms. Rendering large/complex SVGs isn't getting 60x faster.

And this is just one part of page rendering. This part may already be neglectable, representing fractions of a second, drowning in the parsing and structuring of the output done prior to actually rendering it.

To me, all of this is just windbagging and vacuous marketing - just like the (almost entirely) pointless Javascript boasting.

It still doesn't say what exactly. I doubt they have a 60 times speed increase in everything

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